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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. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was written and is presumably set in what era?
(a) The 1930s
(b) The 1940s
(c) The 1950s
(d) The 1920s

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 fire
(b) The sun
(c) A geyser
(d) Lava

3. What word from the story refers to keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss?
(a) Frantic
(b) Wonder
(c) Astonishment
(d) Grief

4. Where was author Roald Dahl born?
(a) Wales
(b) Poland
(c) Russia
(d) Norway

5. As the search goes on, Mary knows that there are other policemen searching where?
(a) At her mother’s house
(b) At the grocery store
(c) In the cellar and attic
(d) In the garden around the house

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the store clerk’s response when Mary asks him if he thinks her dinner will be all right despite being cooked from frozen?

2. What are the first thoughts that Mary thinks after killing her husband?

3. How many table lamps are described in the room in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

4. How is the shape of Patrick’s mouth described in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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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