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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) Readers Digest
(b) Harper’s Magazine
(c) Newsweek
(d) The New Yorker

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

3. Where was author Roald Dahl born?
(a) Poland
(b) Norway
(c) Russia
(d) Wales

4. As the search goes on, Mary knows that there are other policemen searching where?
(a) At the grocery store
(b) In the garden around the house
(c) At her mother’s house
(d) In the cellar and attic

5. Where does Mary go after leaving Patrick in the living room in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) To the bedroom
(b) Outside
(c) To the cellar
(d) To the attic

Short Answer Questions

1. Patrick tells Mary that he’ll give her what after he’s related his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. From what narrative tense is “Lamb to the Slaughter” related?

3. Mary is told by the policemen that her husband has been killed how?

4. What kind of air is described about Mary and “everything she did” in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

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