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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. By what name is Mary addressed by the store clerk?
(a) Mrs. Maloney
(b) Miss Mary
(c) Mrs. M.
(d) Mary

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

3. Patrick is described as sitting how in a chair in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Loosely
(b) Slouchy
(c) Stiffly
(d) Sleepily

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the “small favor” that Mary asks of Sergeant Noonan and the other officers?

2. How is the shape of Patrick’s mouth described in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

4. What is the first sound that Mary hears of her husband’s arrival in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. What food item does Mary offer to Patrick after he arrives home?

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