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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 are the curtains arranged in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) The curtains are wide open
(b) The curtains are drawn
(c) Only the right curtain is open
(d) Only the left curtain is open

2. What is the presumed setting of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Canada
(b) The United States
(c) England
(d) France

3. One of the officers in the kitchen says of Patrick, “The doc says his skull was smashed all to pieces just like from a” what?
(a) Baseball bat
(b) Sledgehammer
(c) Tire iron
(d) A piece of firewood

4. What is the first sound that Mary hears of her husband’s arrival in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Singing
(b) Tires on the gravel
(c) A creaking gate
(d) Coughing

5. What does Mary take from her husband when he first arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) His coat
(b) His tie
(c) His shoes
(d) His belt

Short Answer Questions

1. Patrick tells Mary after relating his story that “there needn’t really be any” what?

2. Of the murder weapon, one of the policemen in the kitchen says, "Whoever done it, they're not going to be carrying a thing like that around with them longer than they” what?

3. Who is the first police officer to examine Patrick’s body?

4. “Lamb to the Slaughter” illustrates author Roald Dahl’s fascination with what literary genre?

5. When Mary gets up to leave the room after Patrick’s related his story, she cannot feel what?

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