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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is the room that Mary waits in described in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Dark but clean
(b) Dark but dirty
(c) Cold and dirty
(d) Warm and clean

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

4. Mary is told by the policemen that her husband has been killed how?
(a) By suffocation after being hung
(b) By a gunshot wound to the stomach
(c) By a blow to the back of the head
(d) By drowning in the bathtub

5. Where does Mary sit in the bedroom after killing Patrick?
(a) On the side of the bed
(b) Before the mirror
(c) At the foot of the bed
(d) In front of the window

6. Where does Mary say there’s “plenty of meat and stuff” after Patrick’s arrival?
(a) In the garage
(b) In the freezer
(c) In the cellar
(d) In the cabinets

7. What is a literary technique used to develop suspense in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Literary allusion
(b) Nonlinear plot
(c) Assonance
(d) Foreshadowing

8. What does Mary tell the police detectives she went to the store to buy when they question her?
(a) Wine
(b) Vegetables
(c) Meat
(d) A newspaper

9. How is Mary said to feel as she comes out of her shock after killing Patrick in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Sickened and tortured
(b) Fearful and repellant
(c) Cold and surprised
(d) Paranoid and energetic

10. Sergeant Noonan asks Mary if she would like to go somewhere else and suggests going to whose house in the story?
(a) Patrick’s sister’s house
(b) Mary’s parent’s house
(c) Mary’s brother’s house
(d) Mary’s sister’s house

11. “Lamb to the Slaughter” is included in what short story compilation?
(a) Impossible to Solve
(b) Tales from Afar
(c) Truth be Told
(d) Someone Like You

12. How does Mary greet her husband when he arrives in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Hello sweetheart
(b) I missed you
(c) Welcome home
(d) Hullo darling

13. What does Mary do with the meat after killing Patrick?
(a) Throws it onto the grill
(b) Throws it into the trash
(c) Puts it in the oven
(d) Puts it into the fireplace

14. What does Mary offer to get Patrick, but is turned down, after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) The newspaper
(b) His slippers
(c) His pipe
(d) His glasses

15. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was written and is presumably set in what era?
(a) The 1930s
(b) The 1950s
(c) The 1920s
(d) The 1940s

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mary take when she runs downstairs after rehearsing in her room?

3. As the search goes on, Mary knows that there are other policemen searching where?

4. What does Mary say when the police pick up after she calls them?

5. Patrick tells Mary after relating his story that “there needn’t really be any” what?

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