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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 is the meat from the freezer wrapped in?
(a) Foil
(b) Plastic
(c) Burlap
(d) Paper

2. Where does Mary set her parcel from the store down when she enters her home?
(a) On the kitchen table
(b) On the floor
(c) In the sink
(d) In a chair

3. What word used in describing the story’s setting refers to a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves or drawers?
(a) Sideboard
(b) Frontslab
(c) Rearshelf
(d) Topdrawer

4. How is Mary said to feel as she comes out of her shock after killing Patrick in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Sickened and tortured
(b) Cold and surprised
(c) Fearful and repellant
(d) Paranoid and energetic

5. Mary tells the police detectives that she was doing what when Patrick arrived home from work?
(a) Singing
(b) Reading
(c) Cleaning
(d) Sewing

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sergeant Noonan’s first name in the story?

2. Patrick tells Mary not to make supper for him for what reason in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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”?

4. According to the narrator, Mary “knew [Patrick] didn’t want to speak much until” what was finished?

5. What does Patrick say when Mary “began to get frightened” in the first section of the story?

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