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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lamb to the Slaughter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gets up at once after the congealed blood is found on Patrick’s head and hurries to the phone?
(a) O’Malley
(b) The fingerprint man
(c) Sergeant Noonan
(d) Charlie

2. What are the first thoughts that Mary thinks after killing her husband?
(a) Hail to Mary, I’ve done it
(b) I must call the police
(c) All right. So I’ve killed him
(d) Oh dear Lord what have I done

3. Who is offered more as Mary listens to the policemen in the kitchen eating?
(a) Charlie
(b) Patrick
(c) Sergeant Noonan
(d) Mary

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

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

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. What is the store clerk’s response when Mary asks him if he thinks her dinner will be all right despite being cooked from frozen?

3. The narrator states in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter,” that the time when Mary’s husband arrives home is always what kind of “time of day” for her?

4. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was initially rejected by what periodical for publication?

5. As Mary walks home from the store, the narrator states, “Mind you, she wasn’t expecting to find anything. She was just going home with the” what?

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