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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in describing the story’s setting refers to a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves or drawers?
(a) Sideboard
(b) Topdrawer
(c) Rearshelf
(d) Frontslab

2. What is Patrick’s profession in the short story?
(a) He is a policeman
(b) He is a doctor
(c) He is a truck driver
(d) He is a taxicab driver

3. What kind of store does Mary go to after killing Patrick?
(a) A candy store
(b) A bookstore
(c) A grocery store
(d) A taxidermy store

4. What food item does Mary offer to Patrick after he arrives home?
(a) Fish
(b) Cake
(c) Bread
(d) Cheese

5. Mary tells the store clerk that Patrick has caught her without any what?
(a) Meat
(b) Dessert
(c) Beverages
(d) Vegetables

6. Mary explains that she hasn’t made any supper for what reason in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) They are out of food
(b) She is very sick
(c) They are eating at the neighbor’s house
(d) They eat out on Thursdays

7. Who is the protagonist of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Mary
(b) Patrick
(c) Sam
(d) Sergeant Noonan

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

9. Where does Mary set her parcel from the store down when she enters her home?
(a) On the floor
(b) In the sink
(c) In a chair
(d) On the kitchen table

10. Mary tells the police detectives that the meat for Patrick’s dinner is where when they question her?
(a) Cooking in the oven
(b) Thawing in the sink
(c) In the refrigerator
(d) In the freezer

11. When Mary leaves to go to the store, it’s not yet what time?
(a) 9:00 p.m.
(b) 3:00 p.m.
(c) 10:00 a.m.
(d) 6:00 p.m

12. What is described as being “twisted back underneath [Patrick’s] body” when Mary returns home from the store?
(a) Patrick’s leg
(b) Patrick’s arm
(c) Patrick’s foot
(d) Patrick’s neck

13. What is Mary’s response when she sees Patrick’s body after returning from the store?
(a) She runs and hides
(b) She begins crying
(c) She laughs
(d) She kicks the body

14. One of the officers in the kitchen says of Patrick, “The doc says his skull was smashed all to pieces just like from a” what?
(a) Baseball bat
(b) A piece of firewood
(c) Tire iron
(d) Sledgehammer

15. After Patrick is confirmed as dead, who arrives next to Mary’s house to join the investigation?
(a) O'Malley
(b) Sergeant Noonan
(c) A doctor
(d) A police photographer

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the murder weapon, one of the policemen in the kitchen says that it is probably where?

2. How are the curtains arranged in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. Who gets up at once after the congealed blood is found on Patrick’s head and hurries to the phone?

4. Patrick is described as sitting how in a chair in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. As Patrick begins to talk to Mary, the lamplight leaves what aspects of his face in shadow?

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