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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. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was initially rejected by what periodical for publication?
(a) Harper’s Magazine
(b) Newsweek
(c) The New Yorker
(d) Readers Digest

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) Thick and sloppy
(b) Mumbling and incoherent
(c) Loud and boisterous
(d) Soft and satisfied

3. What kind of look describes Mary’s eyes in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Placid
(b) Mourning
(c) Excited
(d) Wondering

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

5. What is described in the Thermos bucket in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) A bottle of beer
(b) A bottle of champagne
(c) Fresh ice cubes
(d) Stagnant water

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Where does Mary say there’s “plenty of meat and stuff” after Patrick’s arrival?

3. Where was “Lamb to the Slaughter” first published?

4. Mary is told by the policemen that the weapon used to kill her husband was “most certainly a large piece of” what?

5. According to the narrator, after Patrick tells Mary his story, “Her first instinct was to” do what?

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