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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. Where does Mary tell the police officer on the phone that Patrick is when she calls them?
(a) Lying on the floor
(b) On the stairs
(c) In his chair
(d) Slumped over the sofa

2. By what name does Mary call Sergeant Noonan as the investigation continues?
(a) Charlie
(b) Sam
(c) Jack
(d) Thomas

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

4. What word from the story refers to a state of being desperate or wild with excitement, passion or fear?
(a) Wonder
(b) Astonishment
(c) Grief
(d) Frantic

5. Who is the officer who is asked by another in the kitchen, “What do you think?”
(a) Charlie
(b) The fingerprint man
(c) Sergeant Noonan
(d) O'Malley

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the short story means to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination?

2. Mary tells the police detective that she doesn’t own any items like he suggested for the murder weapon, but that there might be some things like that where?

3. 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”?

4. Mary is told by the policemen that her husband has been killed with what weapon?

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

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