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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. How does Mary kill her husband in the story?
(a) She strangles him
(b) She poisons him
(c) She shoots him in the chest
(d) She hits him over the head

2. Which object from “Lamb to the Slaughter” symbolizes “revenge”?
(a) The newspaper article
(b) The wall clock
(c) The pastry string
(d) The leg of lamb

3. Who is the first police officer to examine Patrick’s body?
(a) Charlie
(b) Sam
(c) Sergeant Noonan
(d) O’Malley

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

5. One of the officers in the kitchen says “That’s a hell of a big” what that was “used to hit poor Patrick”?
(a) Log
(b) Board
(c) Brick
(d) Club

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary offer to get Patrick, but is turned down, after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. All of Mary’s movements are said to be what, after Patrick has told her his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. How does Mary greet her husband when he arrives in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

4. Where is Patrick standing when Mary reenters the living room with the meat from the freezer?

5. Mary tells the police detectives that Patrick was where when she returned from the store?

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