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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. Who discovers a small patch of congealed blood on Patrick’s head when the police arrive?
(a) A police photographer
(b) Sergeant Noonan
(c) Charlie
(d) O'Malley

2. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was written and is presumably set in what era?
(a) The 1950s
(b) The 1930s
(c) The 1940s
(d) The 1920s

3. Patrick tells Mary in the first half of “Lamb to the Slaughter,” “I hope you won’t blame” who too much?
(a) God
(b) Yourself
(c) Me
(d) My mistress

4. All of Mary’s movements are said to be what, after Patrick has told her his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Monotonous
(b) Automatic
(c) Stilted
(d) Ominous

5. What is the “small favor” that Mary asks of Sergeant Noonan and the other officers?
(a) To let her go to sleep
(b) To let her take a bath
(c) To leave
(d) To eat dinner

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary hides the truth about Patrick’s murder to presumably protect whom?

2. The plot structure of “Lamb to the Slaughter” depicts which qualities?

3. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was adapted for an episode of what television show?

4. What is described in the Thermos bucket in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. Mary calls the police officer’s dear friends of whom in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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