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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. When Sergeant Noonan offers to take Mary to another house for the night, she responds that she “didn’t feel like she could move even” how much “at the moment”?
(a) A yard
(b) A foot
(c) A centimeter
(d) An inch

2. What dessert does Mary purchase at the store?
(a) Apple pie
(b) Lemon cake
(c) Iced cream
(d) Cheesecake

3. What is the first question that Mary asks Patrick after he arrives home?
(a) Catch any criminals today?
(b) Where shall we go for dinner?
(c) Tired darling?
(d) How was your day?

4. What is the meat from the freezer wrapped in?
(a) Plastic
(b) Burlap
(c) Paper
(d) Foil

5. Patrick’s “statement” to Mary is not detailed in the text, but is said to last now long at most?
(a) 4-5 minutes
(b) 3-4 minutes
(c) 2-3 minutes
(d) 1-2 minutes

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mary’s presumed reason for going to the store in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

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

5. The narrator states that Mary “loved to” do what “in the presence of this man” (Patrick) in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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