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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many police officers initially arrive after Mary calls the police?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 4

2. From what narrative point of view is “Lamb to the Slaughter” related?
(a) Second person
(b) Third person
(c) Fourth person
(d) First person

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

4. Mary is told by the policemen that the weapon used to kill her husband was “most certainly a large piece of” what?
(a) Rock
(b) Plastic
(c) Metal
(d) Wood

5. What word from the story means a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law?
(a) Penalty
(b) Judgment
(c) Motive
(d) Evidence

6. When Sergeant Noonan offers to take Mary to another house for the night, she responds that she “didn’t feel like she could move even” how much “at the moment”?
(a) A yard
(b) An inch
(c) A foot
(d) A centimeter

7. One of the officers in the kitchen says of the murder weapon, “"Personally, I think it's” where?
(a) Right here on the premises
(b) Out in the yard
(c) In the basement
(d) Long gone

8. By what name is Mary addressed by the store clerk?
(a) Mrs. M.
(b) Mrs. Maloney
(c) Miss Mary
(d) Mary

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

10. Who is the officer who is asked by another in the kitchen, “What do you think?”
(a) Sergeant Noonan
(b) O'Malley
(c) The fingerprint man
(d) Charlie

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

12. How are Mary’s eyes described in the story?
(a) Slanted
(b) Beady
(c) Large
(d) Small

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

14. How are Mary’s actions described when she kills her husband?
(a) Without any pause
(b) Rage driven
(c) Hesitant
(d) Filled with remorse

15. What happens to the murder weapon in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) The policemen eat it
(b) It remains hidden in the basement
(c) A dog runs off with it
(d) It gets buried in the yard

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary overhears the police detective telling another that the store clerk said Mary’s behavior was what?

2. Patrick tells Mary not to make supper for him for what reason in “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. Where is Patrick standing when Mary reenters the living room with the meat from the freezer?

5. Mary tells the police officers that arrive that she had been where when Patrick was killed?

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