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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) In the freezer
(b) Cooking in the oven
(c) Thawing in the sink
(d) In the refrigerator

2. Where in “Lamb to the Slaughter” does the rising action take place?
(a) When Mary goes to the store
(b) When Patrick tells Mary he’s leaving her
(c) When Mary calls the police
(d) When the police arrive at Mary’s door

3. What murder weapon is used to kill Patrick in the story?
(a) A knife
(b) A gun
(c) A leg of lamb
(d) A crow bar

4. Who is working at the store when Mary arrives after killing Patrick?
(a) Robert
(b) Charlie
(c) Patrick
(d) Sam

5. As the search goes on, Mary knows that there are other policemen searching where?
(a) At the grocery store
(b) In the cellar and attic
(c) At her mother’s house
(d) In the garden around the house

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

7. According to the narrator, Mary “knew [Patrick] didn’t want to speak much until” what was finished?
(a) Supper
(b) The first drink
(c) The sunset
(d) The second drink

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

9. What is Sergeant Noonan’s first name in the story?
(a) Peter
(b) Jack
(c) James
(d) Patrick

10. What are the first thoughts that Mary thinks after killing her husband?
(a) All right. So I’ve killed him
(b) I must call the police
(c) Oh dear Lord what have I done
(d) Hail to Mary, I’ve done it

11. Where does Mary tell the police officer on the phone that Patrick is when she calls them?
(a) In his chair
(b) Slumped over the sofa
(c) On the stairs
(d) Lying on the floor

12. Mary is said to watch Patrick as he relates his statement “with a kind of dazed” what?
(a) Relief
(b) Shock
(c) Amazement
(d) Horror

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

14. What kind of air is described about Mary and “everything she did” in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) A free-spirited air
(b) A quick frantic air
(c) A methodical air
(d) A slow smiling air

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a prominent literary element in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. Mary tells the police detectives that Patrick was where when she returned from the store?

3. Mary is told by the policemen that her husband has been killed how?

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

5. What does Mary do at the end of the short story?

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