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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 does Mary do at the end of the short story?
(a) She giggles
(b) She vomits
(c) She cries
(d) She trembles

2. What literary style that applies to “Lamb to the Slaughter” refers to the use of the grotesque, morbid, or absurd for darkly comic purposes?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Alliteration
(c) Black humor
(d) Assonance

3. Who arrives after the police detectives to investigate Patrick’s death?
(a) A police photographer
(b) O'Malley
(c) A doctor
(d) Sergeant Noonan

4. Mary tells the police officers that arrive that she had been where when Patrick was killed?
(a) The grocery store
(b) The library
(c) The church
(d) The department store

5. Sergeant Noonan discovers that what is still on in the kitchen?
(a) Mary’s lights
(b) Mary’s toaster
(c) Mary’s oven
(d) Mary’s blender

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary tell the police detectives she went to the store to buy when they question her?

2. What time does the clock say when Mary begins to listen for her husband’s arrival in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. What does Mary offer to get Patrick, but is turned down, after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

4. How many policemen are left in Mary’s house after they’ve all had drinks?

5. “Lamb to the Slaughter” illustrates author Roald Dahl’s fascination with what literary genre?

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