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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 is Patrick’s profession in the short story?
(a) He is a truck driver
(b) He is a doctor
(c) He is a policeman
(d) He is a taxicab driver

2. Patrick tells Mary in the first half of “Lamb to the Slaughter,” “I hope you won’t blame” who too much?
(a) God
(b) Yourself
(c) My mistress
(d) Me

3. How are Mary’s eyes described in the story?
(a) Beady
(b) Slanted
(c) Large
(d) Small

4. What is Mary doing as she awaits her husband’s arrival in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Reading
(b) Painting
(c) Sewing
(d) Listening to the radio

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How far along is Mary’s pregnancy in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. What is the “small favor” that Mary asks of Sergeant Noonan and the other officers?

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

4. 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?

5. Patrick’s “statement” to Mary is not detailed in the text, but is said to last now long at most?

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