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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. Where was “Lamb to the Slaughter” first published?
(a) Reader’s Digest
(b) Newsweek
(c) New York Magazine
(d) Harper’s Magazine

2. 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 geyser
(b) Lava
(c) The sun
(d) A fire

3. Where in “Lamb to the Slaughter” does the rising action take place?
(a) When the police arrive at Mary’s door
(b) When Patrick tells Mary he’s leaving her
(c) When Mary goes to the store
(d) When Mary calls the police

4. One of the officers in the kitchen says “That’s a hell of a big” what that was “used to hit poor Patrick”?
(a) Club
(b) Brick
(c) Board
(d) Log

5. The final comment made by the policemen in “Lamb to the Slaughter” relates to which literary element?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Assonance
(c) Onomatopoeia
(d) Irony

Short Answer Questions

1. Patrick’s “statement” to Mary is not detailed in the text, but is said to last now long at most?

2. How are the curtains arranged in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. Patrick tells Mary in the story, “I've thought about it a good deal and I've decided the only thing to do is” what?

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

5. “Lamb to the Slaughter” illustrates author Roald Dahl’s fascination with what literary genre?

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