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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) Charlie
(b) O’Malley
(c) The fingerprint man
(d) Sergeant Noonan

2. Where does Mary discover her dead husband lying after she returns from the store?
(a) In the bedroom
(b) In the bathroom
(c) In the living room
(d) On the stairs

3. Which object from “Lamb to the Slaughter” symbolizes “revenge”?
(a) The leg of lamb
(b) The wall clock
(c) The newspaper article
(d) The pastry string

4. According to the narrator, “the detectives kept asking [Mary] a lot of questions. But they always treated her” how?
(a) Innocently
(b) Respectfully
(c) Kindly
(d) Suspiciously

5. Mary explains that she hasn’t made any supper for what reason in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) They are out of food
(b) She is very sick
(c) They eat out on Thursdays
(d) They are eating at the neighbor’s house

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary is told by the policemen that her husband has been killed with what weapon?

2. What murder weapon is used to kill Patrick in the story?

3. One of the officers in the kitchen says of the murder weapon, “"Personally, I think it's” where?

4. 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?

5. The narrator states that Mary “loved to” do what “in the presence of this man” (Patrick) in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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