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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 is Patrick’s profession in the short story?
(a) He is a truck driver
(b) He is a policeman
(c) He is a doctor
(d) He is a taxicab driver

2. The narrator compares “that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together” to what in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) A geyser
(b) A fire
(c) The sun
(d) Lava

3. What kind of store does Mary go to after killing Patrick?
(a) A bookstore
(b) A grocery store
(c) A candy store
(d) A taxidermy store

4. 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) Scream and slap him
(c) Run out the front door
(d) Clean the house

5. Mary is told by the policemen that the weapon used to kill her husband was “most certainly a large piece of” what?
(a) Rock
(b) Metal
(c) Plastic
(d) Wood

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary do at the end of the short story?

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

3. Mary tells the store clerk that Patrick has caught her without any what?

4. What is Mary’s response when the police officer on the phone asks, “Who’s speaking?”

5. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was written and is presumably set in what era?

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