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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. As Mary, in the living room, listens to the policemen in the kitchen, their voices are described as being what “because their mouths were full of meat”?
(a) Soft and satisfied
(b) Loud and boisterous
(c) Thick and sloppy
(d) Mumbling and incoherent

2. Mary hides the truth about Patrick’s murder to presumably protect whom?
(a) Patrick’s lover
(b) Her mother
(c) Her secret lover
(d) Her unborn child

3. Mary is described as loving the way that Patrick remains silent about his what, in the beginning of the short story?
(a) Tiredness
(b) Frustration
(c) Anger
(d) Admiration

4. 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) Lava
(d) A geyser

5. “Lamb to the Slaughter” illustrates author Roald Dahl’s fascination with what literary genre?
(a) Science fiction
(b) Romance
(c) Horror
(d) Historical fiction

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Roald Dahl is perhaps best known for writing what children’s novel?

2. Where does Mary discover her dead husband lying after she returns from the store?

3. How far along is Mary’s pregnancy in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

4. Sergeant Noonan asks Mary if she would like to go somewhere else and suggests going to whose house in the story?

5. What refers to the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed?

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