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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 Mary’s response when the police officer on the phone asks, “Who’s speaking?”
(a) Patrick’s wife, Mary
(b) It’s Mary Maloney
(c) Mrs. Maloney. Mrs. Patrick Maloney
(d) Mary M., Maloney, that is

2. 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) Can
(b) Should
(c) Got to
(d) Need

3. How does Mary greet her husband when he arrives in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Hullo darling
(b) Hello sweetheart
(c) Welcome home
(d) I missed you

4. Author Roald Dahl was born in what year?
(a) 1897
(b) 1916
(c) 1961
(d) 1932

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is working at the store when Mary arrives after killing Patrick?

2. By what name is Mary addressed by the store clerk?

3. What is described as being “twisted back underneath [Patrick’s] body” when Mary returns home from the store?

4. What is Mary doing as she awaits her husband’s arrival in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. As Mary walks home from the store, the narrator states, “Mind you, she wasn’t expecting to find anything. She was just going home with the” what?

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