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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. Mary is told by the policemen that her husband has been killed how?
(a) By a blow to the back of the head
(b) By suffocation after being hung
(c) By a gunshot wound to the stomach
(d) By drowning in the bathtub

2. Who does Mary rehearse speaking to in her bedroom after killing Patrick?
(a) Sam
(b) Paul
(c) O’Malley
(d) Patrick

3. What is Mary’s presumed reason for going to the store in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) She was out of milk
(b) She wanted to get away from her husband
(c) To establish an alibi
(d) She needed vegetables

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary greet her husband when he arrives in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. Mary tells herself as she walks home from the store, “That’s the way. Do Everything” how?

3. What does Mary do at the end of the short story?

4. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was adapted for an episode of what television show?

5. Mary hides the truth about Patrick’s murder to presumably protect whom?

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