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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. The plot structure of “Lamb to the Slaughter” depicts which qualities?
(a) It follows an anticlimactic plot line
(b) It follows a traditional plot line
(c) It follows a postmodern plot line
(d) It follows a nonlinear plot line

2. What day of the week is it in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Friday
(c) Sunday
(d) Thursday

3. What is Mary’s presumed reason for going to the store in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) She was out of milk
(b) She needed vegetables
(c) She wanted to get away from her husband
(d) To establish an alibi

4. Mary calls the police officer’s dear friends of whom in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Jesus
(b) Sam
(c) Hers
(d) Patrick

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the first thoughts that Mary thinks after killing her husband?

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

3. Mary is told by the policemen that her husband has been killed how?

4. How are Mary’s actions described when she kills her husband?

5. Author Roald Dahl is perhaps best known for writing what children’s novel?

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