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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 Patrick was where when she returned from the store?
(a) Lying on the floor
(b) Slumped over in his chair
(c) Curled up in the bathtub
(d) Sitting upright on the couch

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

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

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

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

6. Patrick’s “statement” to Mary is not detailed in the text, but is said to last now long at most?
(a) 1-2 minutes
(b) 4-5 minutes
(c) 3-4 minutes
(d) 2-3 minutes

7. One of the officers in the kitchen says “That’s a hell of a big” what that was “used to hit poor Patrick”?
(a) Club
(b) Log
(c) Board
(d) Brick

8. What does the store clerk inquire if Mary wants to purchase?
(a) Meat
(b) A newspaper
(c) Milk
(d) Wine

9. The plot structure of “Lamb to the Slaughter” depicts which qualities?
(a) It follows a traditional plot line
(b) It follows a postmodern plot line
(c) It follows an anticlimactic plot line
(d) It follows a nonlinear plot line

10. 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) A piece of firewood
(b) Baseball bat
(c) Sledgehammer
(d) Tire iron

11. 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

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

13. Mary is awaiting her husband’s arrival from where in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) The grocery store
(b) A funeral
(c) The butcher
(d) Work

14. Patrick tells Mary in the first half of “Lamb to the Slaughter,” “I hope you won’t blame” who too much?
(a) My mistress
(b) Yourself
(c) Me
(d) God

15. 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 pipe
(c) His glasses
(d) His slippers

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary tells herself on the way home from the store that if she does things correctly “there’ll be no need for any” what at all?

2. What is the store clerk’s response when Mary asks him if he thinks her dinner will be all right despite being cooked from frozen?

3. Mary is said to be the wife of what after killing her husband?

4. “Lamb to the Slaughter” illustrates author Roald Dahl’s fascination with what literary genre?

5. What is described as being “twisted back underneath [Patrick’s] body” when Mary returns home from the store?

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