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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 reason does Mary give to the store clerk for her staying in tonight?
(a) The car needs repairs
(b) She is feeling ill
(c) The restaurant is closed
(d) Patrick is tired

2. Who discovers a small patch of congealed blood on Patrick’s head when the police arrive?
(a) A police photographer
(b) O'Malley
(c) Charlie
(d) Sergeant Noonan

3. What is Mary’s response when the police officer on the phone asks, “Who’s speaking?”
(a) Mary M., Maloney, that is
(b) Mrs. Maloney. Mrs. Patrick Maloney
(c) Patrick’s wife, Mary
(d) It’s Mary Maloney

4. How long does Patrick remain standing before he crashes to the carpet?
(a) 15-20 seconds
(b) 5-10 seconds
(c) 4-5 seconds
(d) 2-3 seconds

5. What word from the short story refers to the friendly reception and treatment of guests or strangers?
(a) Hospitality
(b) Tolerance
(c) Rebuttal
(d) Parade

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Mary, in the living room, listens to the policemen in the kitchen, their voices are described as being what “because their mouths were full of meat”?

3. Mary tells the police detectives that she was doing what when Patrick arrived home from work?

4. Mary is said to watch Patrick as he relates his statement “with a kind of dazed” what?

5. Who is the protagonist of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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