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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mary’s response when Patrick tells her, “Listen, I’ve got something to tell you”?
(a) Please, explain yourself
(b) What is it, darling? What’s the matter?
(c) Could it wait until after dinner?
(d) Should I sit down for this?

2. Mary tells Patrick that he can eat his dinner where in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) At the restaurant
(b) At the diner
(c) In the dining room
(d) In his chair

3. Patrick tells Mary after relating his story that “there needn’t really be any” what?
(a) Yelling
(b) Fuss
(c) Agony
(d) Hatred

4. How many notes does the police detective have when he returns from checking Mary’s alibi at the store?
(a) A paragraph of notes
(b) A couple of sentences as notes
(c) Two pages of notes
(d) A page of notes

5. 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 foot
(c) Patrick’s neck
(d) Patrick’s arm

6. How many policemen are left in Mary’s house after they’ve all had drinks?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 1

7. How is Mary said to greet the store clerk when she arrives after killing Patrick?
(a) Faintly
(b) Sadly
(c) Decisively
(d) Brightly

8. Mary hides the truth about Patrick’s murder to presumably protect whom?
(a) Her mother
(b) Patrick’s lover
(c) Her unborn child
(d) Her secret lover

9. What does Mary take when she runs downstairs after rehearsing in her room?
(a) Her hat
(b) Her purse
(c) Her shoes
(d) Her coat

10. When Mary gets up to leave the room after Patrick’s related his story, she cannot feel what?
(a) Her hands reaching for her coat
(b) Her eyes, gazing around the room
(c) Her feet touching the floor
(d) Her face looking in the mirror

11. What does Mary say when the police pick up after she calls them?
(a) My husband has been attacked
(b) I need an ambulance
(c) Quick! Come quick! Patrick’s dead!
(d) There has been a murder

12. What does Mary attempt to do in the bedroom after killing Patrick?
(a) Scream
(b) Call her mother
(c) Cry
(d) Smile

13. What word from the story refers to keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss?
(a) Grief
(b) Astonishment
(c) Wonder
(d) Frantic

14. How is the shape of Patrick’s mouth described in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Large
(b) Obtuse
(c) Funny
(d) Small

15. According to the narrator, “the detectives kept asking [Mary] a lot of questions. But they always treated her” how?
(a) Innocently
(b) Kindly
(c) Suspiciously
(d) Respectfully

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was “Lamb to the Slaughter” first published?

2. Who is offered more as Mary listens to the policemen in the kitchen eating?

3. What kind of meat does Mary take from the freezer in the story?

4. Patrick tells Mary after he’s finished his story, “So there it is. And I know it’s kind of” what?

5. After Patrick is confirmed as dead, who arrives next to Mary’s house to join the investigation?

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