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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. Mary tells the police detectives that the meat for Patrick’s dinner is where when they question her?
(a) Cooking in the oven
(b) In the freezer
(c) In the refrigerator
(d) Thawing in the sink

2. How are Mary’s actions described when she kills her husband?
(a) Without any pause
(b) Filled with remorse
(c) Rage driven
(d) Hesitant

3. How many table lamps are described in the room in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 1

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

5. How is Mary said to greet the store clerk when she arrives after killing Patrick?
(a) Decisively
(b) Faintly
(c) Sadly
(d) Brightly

Short Answer Questions

1. After Patrick is confirmed as dead, who arrives next to Mary’s house to join the investigation?

2. Mary is said to be the wife of what after killing her husband?

3. Mary tells herself as she walks home from the store, “That’s the way. Do Everything” how?

4. As Mary walks home from the store, the narrator states, “Mind you, she wasn’t expecting to find anything. She was just going home with the” what?

5. The narrator states in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter,” that the time when Mary’s husband arrives home is always what kind of “time of day” for her?

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