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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. What refers to the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed?
(a) Prosecution
(b) Alibi
(c) Sentence
(d) Motive

2. The final comment made by the policemen in “Lamb to the Slaughter” relates to which literary element?
(a) Irony
(b) Alliteration
(c) Onomatopoeia
(d) Assonance

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

4. One of the officers in the kitchen says “That’s a hell of a big” what that was “used to hit poor Patrick”?
(a) Club
(b) Brick
(c) Log
(d) Board

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?
(a) Blissful
(b) Mediocre
(c) Maddening
(d) Jealous

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary tells Patrick that he can eat his dinner where in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

3. What reason does Mary give to the store clerk for her staying in tonight?

4. Before Mary commits the crime of murder, she exhibits the qualities of what archetype or stereotype in the story?

5. What is the first thing that Mary says after Patrick has related his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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