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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. Who arrives after the police detectives to investigate Patrick’s death?
(a) A police photographer
(b) Sergeant Noonan
(c) A doctor
(d) O'Malley

2. As Mary, in the living room, listens to the policemen in the kitchen, their voices are described as being what “because their mouths were full of meat”?
(a) Loud and boisterous
(b) Mumbling and incoherent
(c) Thick and sloppy
(d) Soft and satisfied

3. What does Mary resume doing after Patrick arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Humming
(b) Reading
(c) Sewing
(d) Cooking

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

5. What is Mary’s response when Patrick tells her, “Listen, I’ve got something to tell you”?
(a) Should I sit down for this?
(b) Please, explain yourself
(c) What is it, darling? What’s the matter?
(d) Could it wait until after dinner?

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When Mary gets up to leave the room after Patrick’s related his story, she cannot feel what?

3. Mary tells the police detective that she doesn’t own any items like he suggested for the murder weapon, but that there might be some things like that where?

4. Who is the officer who is asked by another in the kitchen, “What do you think?”

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

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