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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. Sergeant Noonan asks Mary if she would like to go somewhere else and suggests going to whose house in the story?
(a) Patrick’s sister’s house
(b) Mary’s brother’s house
(c) Mary’s parent’s house
(d) Mary’s sister’s house

2. Where does Mary discover her dead husband lying after she returns from the store?
(a) In the bedroom
(b) In the living room
(c) On the stairs
(d) In the bathroom

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

4. Where is Patrick standing when Mary reenters the living room with the meat from the freezer?
(a) On the porch
(b) By the window
(c) On the stairs
(d) In the kitchen

5. 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) Loud and boisterous
(c) Soft and satisfied
(d) Mumbling and incoherent

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does the clock say when Mary begins to listen for her husband’s arrival in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. Mary is said to be the wife of what after killing her husband?

3. How many table lamps are described in the room in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

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

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