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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 literary style that applies to “Lamb to the Slaughter” refers to the use of the grotesque, morbid, or absurd for darkly comic purposes?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Black humor
(c) Metaphor
(d) Assonance

2. Who is the officer who is asked by another in the kitchen, “What do you think?”
(a) Sergeant Noonan
(b) The fingerprint man
(c) O'Malley
(d) Charlie

3. Where does Mary discover her dead husband lying after she returns from the store?
(a) In the living room
(b) In the bathroom
(c) In the bedroom
(d) On the stairs

4. Mary tells herself on the way home from the store that if she does things correctly “there’ll be no need for any” what at all?
(a) Explanation
(b) Alibi
(c) Acting
(d) Crying

5. When Mary gets up to leave the room after Patrick’s related his story, she cannot feel what?
(a) Her eyes, gazing around the room
(b) Her hands reaching for her coat
(c) Her face looking in the mirror
(d) Her feet touching the floor

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mary’s response when she sees Patrick’s body after returning from the store?

2. Before Mary commits the crime of murder, she exhibits the qualities of what archetype or stereotype in the story?

3. 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”?

4. What reason does Mary give to the store clerk for her staying in tonight?

5. What does Mary do with the meat after killing Patrick?

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