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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 drink that Mary mixes for herself described in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Just right
(b) Strong
(c) Weak
(d) Ice cold

2. As Patrick begins to talk to Mary, the lamplight leaves what aspects of his face in shadow?
(a) His nose and hair
(b) His chin and mouth
(c) His hair and ears
(d) His cheek and eyebrow

3. Mary tells the police detectives that she was doing what when Patrick arrived home from work?
(a) Cleaning
(b) Reading
(c) Sewing
(d) Singing

4. Mary’s feelings for her husband in the beginning of the story are defined in which way?
(a) Mary adores her husband
(b) Mary fears her husband
(c) Mary is enraged at her husband
(d) Mary detests her husband

5. Mary tells Patrick that he can eat his dinner where in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) In the dining room
(b) In his chair
(c) At the restaurant
(d) At the diner

Short Answer Questions

1. Patrick tells Mary not to make supper for him for what reason in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. What is the officer’s reply when another says from the kitchen, "She wants us to finish it. She said so. Be doing her a favor”?

3. Mary is said to be the wife of what after killing her husband?

4. When Mary gets up to leave the room after Patrick’s related his story, she cannot feel what?

5. What word from the story refers to keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss?

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