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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 does Mary attempt to do when Patrick tells her to “sit down” after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Call the police
(b) Make him a second drink
(c) Call her mother
(d) Go to the grocery store

2. What is described as being “twisted back underneath [Patrick’s] body” when Mary returns home from the store?
(a) Patrick’s leg
(b) Patrick’s neck
(c) Patrick’s arm
(d) Patrick’s foot

3. 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) A foot
(b) An inch
(c) A yard
(d) A centimeter

4. Author Roald Dahl was born in what year?
(a) 1961
(b) 1932
(c) 1897
(d) 1916

5. Of the murder weapon, one of the policemen in the kitchen says that it is probably where?
(a) Long gone
(b) In an alleyway somewhere
(c) Somewhere hidden in the garden
(d) Right under our noses

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mary set her parcel from the store down when she enters her home?

2. What does the store clerk inquire if Mary wants to purchase?

3. What does Mary attempt to do in the bedroom after killing Patrick?

4. What kind of quality describes Mary’s skin in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. How is the drink that Mary mixes for Patrick described after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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