Lamb to the Slaughter Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Lamb to the Slaughter Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Patrick’s second drink that he makes for himself described as?
(a) Light crimson
(b) Dark amber
(c) Light brown
(d) Black

2. As Mary, in the living room, listens to the policemen in the kitchen, their voices are described as being what “because their mouths were full of meat”?
(a) Mumbling and incoherent
(b) Loud and boisterous
(c) Thick and sloppy
(d) Soft and satisfied

3. Mary notices a little muscle twitching where on Patrick’s face as he begins to talk to her?
(a) Near the corner of his left eye
(b) On his forehead
(c) Near the corner of his right eye
(d) Near the left corner of his mouth

4. When Sergeant Noonan offers to take Mary to another house for the night, she responds that she “didn’t feel like she could move even” how much “at the moment”?
(a) A centimeter
(b) A yard
(c) A foot
(d) An inch

5. Mary is described as loving the way that Patrick remains silent about his what, in the beginning of the short story?
(a) Frustration
(b) Tiredness
(c) Admiration
(d) Anger

6. What is a literary technique used to develop suspense in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Foreshadowing
(b) Assonance
(c) Nonlinear plot
(d) Literary allusion

7. Where does Mary tell the police officer on the phone that Patrick is when she calls them?
(a) Slumped over the sofa
(b) On the stairs
(c) Lying on the floor
(d) In his chair

8. What look in Patrick’s eyes does Mary love, as described in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) The intent, far look in his eyes
(b) The humble, keen look in his eyes
(c) The rambling, wide look in his eyes
(d) The specific, narrow look in his eyes

9. One of the officers in the kitchen says of Patrick, “The doc says his skull was smashed all to pieces just like from a” what?
(a) Baseball bat
(b) Sledgehammer
(c) Tire iron
(d) A piece of firewood

10. Mary is told by the policemen that the weapon used to kill her husband was “most certainly a large piece of” what?
(a) Wood
(b) Metal
(c) Plastic
(d) Rock

11. What does Mary buy at the store after she’s killed Patrick?
(a) Potatoes and peas
(b) Rice and cheese
(c) A newspaper and a book
(d) Candy and cigarettes

12. What “unusual” thing does Patrick do after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) He goes out to the garage
(b) He downs his drink in one swallow
(c) He lies down in bed
(d) He sits outside on the porch

13. How many notes does the police detective have when he returns from checking Mary’s alibi at the store?
(a) A couple of sentences as notes
(b) Two pages of notes
(c) A page of notes
(d) A paragraph of notes

14. What is Mary’s presumed reason for going to the store in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) To establish an alibi
(b) She needed vegetables
(c) She wanted to get away from her husband
(d) She was out of milk

15. What is Mary’s last name in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Maloney
(b) Moore
(c) Markley
(d) Matheson

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary tells herself on the way home from the store that if she does things correctly “there’ll be no need for any” what at all?

2. The narrator compares “that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together” to what in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. What food item does Mary offer to Patrick after he arrives home?

4. Who arrives after the police detectives to investigate Patrick’s death?

5. Who gets up at once after the congealed blood is found on Patrick’s head and hurries to the phone?

(see the answer keys)

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