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

2. According to the narrator, after Patrick tells Mary his story, “Her first instinct was to” do what?
(a) Not believe any of it, to reject it all
(b) Clean the house
(c) Run out the front door
(d) Scream and slap him

3. What member of the investigative team departs after the body has been carried out on a stretcher?
(a) Charlie
(b) A doctor
(c) A police photographer
(d) The fingerprint man

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

5. How is Mary said to feel as she comes out of her shock after killing Patrick in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Fearful and repellant
(b) Cold and surprised
(c) Sickened and tortured
(d) Paranoid and energetic

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mary resume doing after Patrick arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. Mary’s feelings for her husband in the beginning of the story are defined in which way?

4. The plot structure of “Lamb to the Slaughter” depicts which qualities?

5. Where does Mary go after leaving Patrick in the living room in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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