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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. Patrick tells Mary that he’ll give her what after he’s related his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) The child
(b) The car
(c) Money
(d) The house

2. According to the narrator, Mary “knew [Patrick] didn’t want to speak much until” what was finished?
(a) The second drink
(b) The sunset
(c) Supper
(d) The first drink

3. What is Mary’s response when the police officer on the phone asks, “Who’s speaking?”
(a) Mary M., Maloney, that is
(b) It’s Mary Maloney
(c) Patrick’s wife, Mary
(d) Mrs. Maloney. Mrs. Patrick Maloney

4. When Sergeant Noonan offers to take Mary to another house for the night, she responds that she “didn’t feel like she could move even” how much “at the moment”?
(a) An inch
(b) A yard
(c) A centimeter
(d) A foot

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of meat does Mary take from the freezer in the story?

2. According to the narrator, “the detectives kept asking [Mary] a lot of questions. But they always treated her” how?

3. Where in “Lamb to the Slaughter” does the rising action take place?

4. Patrick is described as sitting how in a chair in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. Who arrives after the police detectives to investigate Patrick’s death?

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