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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mary doing as she enters her home from the store?
(a) Crying and thinking
(b) Laughing and giggling
(c) Frowning and praying
(d) Humming and smiling

2. How is Patrick said to travel in relation to Mary as he relates his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Entangling toward her with each word
(b) Closer and closer to her with each word
(c) Further and further away from her with each word
(d) Above and beyond her with each word

3. Mary tells Patrick that he can eat his dinner where in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) In the dining room
(b) At the restaurant
(c) In his chair
(d) At the diner

4. Mary is told by the policemen that her husband has been killed how?
(a) By suffocation after being hung
(b) By a blow to the back of the head
(c) By drowning in the bathtub
(d) By a gunshot wound to the stomach

5. What dessert does Mary purchase at the store?
(a) Iced cream
(b) Apple pie
(c) Lemon cake
(d) Cheesecake

6. What is the meat from the freezer wrapped in?
(a) Plastic
(b) Foil
(c) Paper
(d) Burlap

7. What does Mary take when she runs downstairs after rehearsing in her room?
(a) Her hat
(b) Her coat
(c) Her shoes
(d) Her purse

8. What kind of air is described about Mary and “everything she did” in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) A quick frantic air
(b) A slow smiling air
(c) A free-spirited air
(d) A methodical air

9. Mary’s feelings for her husband in the beginning of the story are defined in which way?
(a) Mary detests her husband
(b) Mary is enraged at her husband
(c) Mary adores her husband
(d) Mary fears her husband

10. What is a prominent literary element in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Symbolism
(b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Literary allusion
(d) Repetitive verse

11. Mary is awaiting her husband’s arrival from where in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) The butcher
(b) Work
(c) The grocery store
(d) A funeral

12. What is Mary doing as she awaits her husband’s arrival in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Sewing
(b) Painting
(c) Listening to the radio
(d) Reading

13. What is the first thing that Mary says after Patrick has related his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) I am in shock
(b) I’ll get the supper
(c) Get out of here
(d) I have laundry to do

14. Patrick is described as sitting how in a chair in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Stiffly
(b) Loosely
(c) Sleepily
(d) Slouchy

15. How are the curtains arranged in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Only the right curtain is open
(b) The curtains are drawn
(c) Only the left curtain is open
(d) The curtains are wide open

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What color is Patrick’s second drink that he makes for himself described as?

3. Patrick’s “statement” to Mary is not detailed in the text, but is said to last now long at most?

4. What does Patrick say when Mary “began to get frightened” in the first section of the story?

5. What does Mary say when the police pick up after she calls them?

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