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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. How is the room that Mary waits in described in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Dark but dirty
(b) Warm and clean
(c) Cold and dirty
(d) Dark but clean

2. How is Mary said to feel as she comes out of her shock after killing Patrick in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Fearful and repellant
(b) Paranoid and energetic
(c) Cold and surprised
(d) Sickened and tortured

3. Mary tells herself on the way home from the store that if she does things correctly “there’ll be no need for any” what at all?
(a) Crying
(b) Acting
(c) Alibi
(d) Explanation

4. When Mary leaves the store, she tells herself that she’s returning home to do what?
(a) Wash the dishes
(b) Cook dinner for her husband
(c) Call her sister on the phone
(d) Finish the laundry

5. 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 centimeter
(b) An inch
(c) A yard
(d) A foot

Short Answer Questions

1. Patrick tells Mary after he’s finished his story, “So there it is. And I know it’s kind of” what?

2. What is Mary’s response when the police officer on the phone asks, “Who’s speaking?”

3. What member of the investigative team departs after the body has been carried out on a stretcher?

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

5. Mary is described as loving the way that Patrick remains silent about his what, in the beginning of the short story?

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