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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. What refers to the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed?
(a) Motive
(b) Prosecution
(c) Alibi
(d) Sentence

2. When Mary leaves to go to the store, it’s not yet what time?
(a) 9:00 p.m.
(b) 10:00 a.m.
(c) 3:00 p.m.
(d) 6:00 p.m

3. What does Mary attempt to do when Patrick tells her to “sit down” after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Go to the grocery store
(b) Call the police
(c) Call her mother
(d) Make him a second drink

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

5. According to the narrator, after Patrick tells Mary his story, “Her first instinct was to” do what?
(a) Not believe any of it, to reject it all
(b) Run out the front door
(c) Scream and slap him
(d) Clean the house

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was “Lamb to the Slaughter” first published?

2. Sergeant Noonan asks Mary if she would like to go somewhere else and suggests going to whose house in the story?

3. Author Roald Dahl was born in what year?

4. What word from the story refers to keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss?

5. Of the murder weapon, one of the policemen in the kitchen says, "Whoever done it, they're not going to be carrying a thing like that around with them longer than they” what?

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