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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Mary’s presumed reason for killing her husband in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Mary kills him because he is leaving her
(b) Mary kills him because he is an alcoholic
(c) Mary kills him because he won’t attend church
(d) Mary kills him because he lost his job

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

6. What is the meat from the freezer wrapped in?
(a) Plastic
(b) Foil
(c) Paper
(d) Burlap

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

8. Patrick tells Mary not to make supper for him for what reason in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) It is too late in the day
(b) He’s going out
(c) He’s not hungry
(d) He doesn’t like her cooking

9. What is Mary doing as she awaits her husband’s arrival in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Listening to the radio
(b) Sewing
(c) Painting
(d) Reading

10. Mary notices a little muscle twitching where on Patrick’s face as he begins to talk to her?
(a) Near the corner of his left eye
(b) Near the corner of his right eye
(c) Near the left corner of his mouth
(d) On his forehead

11. What overturns when Patrick falls to his death in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) A small table
(b) A radio
(c) A bookshelf
(d) A lamp

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

13. How long does Patrick remain standing before he crashes to the carpet?
(a) 15-20 seconds
(b) 2-3 seconds
(c) 5-10 seconds
(d) 4-5 seconds

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

15. What is the first sound that Mary hears of her husband’s arrival in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) A creaking gate
(b) Singing
(c) Tires on the gravel
(d) Coughing

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mary’s response when the police officer on the phone asks, “Who’s speaking?”

3. Mary is awaiting her husband’s arrival from where in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

4. Who is working at the store when Mary arrives after killing Patrick?

5. From what narrative point of view is “Lamb to the Slaughter” related?

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