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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. How many table lamps are described in the room in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 1

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

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 right eye
(b) On his forehead
(c) Near the left corner of his mouth
(d) Near the corner of his left eye

4. Where in “Lamb to the Slaughter” does the rising action take place?
(a) When Patrick tells Mary he’s leaving her
(b) When the police arrive at Mary’s door
(c) When Mary goes to the store
(d) When Mary calls the police

5. The final comment made by the policemen in “Lamb to the Slaughter” relates to which literary element?
(a) Irony
(b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Assonance
(d) Alliteration

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of air is described about Mary and “everything she did” in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. What is Mary’s presumed reason for killing her husband in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. What is the meat from the freezer wrapped in?

4. How are Patrick’s legs described when Mary sees his body after returning from the store?

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

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