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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) Alibi
(c) Prosecution
(d) Sentence

2. What is a literary technique used to develop suspense in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Nonlinear plot
(b) Foreshadowing
(c) Literary allusion
(d) Assonance

3. What is the first question that Mary asks Patrick after he arrives home?
(a) Catch any criminals today?
(b) How was your day?
(c) Where shall we go for dinner?
(d) Tired darling?

4. 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?
(a) Need
(b) Can
(c) Should
(d) Got to

5. What does Mary say when the police pick up after she calls them?
(a) Quick! Come quick! Patrick’s dead!
(b) There has been a murder
(c) I need an ambulance
(d) My husband has been attacked

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary request while she’s rehearsing in her room after killing Patrick?

2. Mary complains about what aspect of Patrick’s job after his arrival home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. Author Roald Dahl was born in what year?

4. Who is the officer who is asked by another in the kitchen, “What do you think?”

5. What kind of store does Mary go to after killing Patrick?

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