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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. Where was author Roald Dahl born?
(a) Norway
(b) Russia
(c) Poland
(d) Wales

2. How many table lamps are described in the room in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 2

3. Where does Mary sit in the bedroom after killing Patrick?
(a) Before the mirror
(b) At the foot of the bed
(c) On the side of the bed
(d) In front of the window

4. How are Patrick’s legs described when Mary sees his body after returning from the store?
(a) At right angles
(b) Doubled up
(c) In a knot
(d) Straight as arrows

5. What literary style that applies to “Lamb to the Slaughter” refers to the use of the grotesque, morbid, or absurd for darkly comic purposes?
(a) Assonance
(b) Black humor
(c) Alliteration
(d) Metaphor

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Patrick’s profession in the short story?

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

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?

4. One of the officers in the kitchen says “That’s a hell of a big” what that was “used to hit poor Patrick”?

5. Patrick tells Mary that what he has to say will be what to her in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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