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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. What does the store clerk inquire if Mary wants to purchase?
(a) Wine
(b) Milk
(c) Meat
(d) A newspaper

2. According to the narrator, after Patrick tells Mary his story, “Her first instinct was to” do what?
(a) Run out the front door
(b) Scream and slap him
(c) Clean the house
(d) Not believe any of it, to reject it all

3. Where does Mary exit the home after killing Patrick?
(a) Through the front door
(b) Through the front window
(c) Through the cellar door
(d) Through the back door

4. What member of the investigative team departs after the body has been carried out on a stretcher?
(a) A doctor
(b) Charlie
(c) The fingerprint man
(d) A police photographer

5. Mary tells Patrick that he can eat his dinner where in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) In his chair
(b) In the dining room
(c) At the diner
(d) At the restaurant

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary say when the police pick up after she calls them?

2. What refers to the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed?

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

4. What “unusual” thing does Patrick do after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. How does Mary reenter her home after going to the store?

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