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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. When Sergeant Noonan offers to take Mary to another house for the night, she responds that she “didn’t feel like she could move even” how much “at the moment”?
(a) A centimeter
(b) An inch
(c) A foot
(d) A yard

2. Patrick tells Mary after relating his story that “there needn’t really be any” what?
(a) Hatred
(b) Fuss
(c) Agony
(d) Yelling

3. Who is offered more as Mary listens to the policemen in the kitchen eating?
(a) Sergeant Noonan
(b) Charlie
(c) Mary
(d) Patrick

4. Mary tells Patrick that he can eat his dinner where in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) At the restaurant
(b) At the diner
(c) In his chair
(d) In the dining room

5. Mary is said to be the wife of what after killing her husband?
(a) A detective
(b) A gentleman
(c) A philanthropist
(d) A saint

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of quality describes Mary’s skin in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. Where does Mary tell the police officer on the phone that Patrick is when she calls them?

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

4. What is the first question that Mary asks Patrick after he arrives home?

5. How are Mary’s actions described when she kills her husband?

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