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This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lamb to the Slaughter Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sergeant Noonan discovers that what is still on in the kitchen?
(a) Mary’s lights
(b) Mary’s toaster
(c) Mary’s oven
(d) Mary’s blender

2. The narrator's description of Mary and her husband’s home leads the reader to assume they fit into what economic bracket?
(a) Lower class
(b) Middle class
(c) Upper class
(d) Ruling class

3. What does Mary buy at the store after she’s killed Patrick?
(a) Potatoes and peas
(b) Candy and cigarettes
(c) Rice and cheese
(d) A newspaper and a book

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meat from the freezer wrapped in?

2. What is described in the Thermos bucket in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. Mary explains that she hasn’t made any supper for what reason in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is “climax” defined? Where in “Lamb to the Slaughter” does the climax occur?

2. How is Biblical allusion depicted through the title of “Lamb to Slaughter”?

3. What transitions did American culture (and European culture) and society make in the 1950s?

4. How does the theme of betrayal apply to “Lamb to Slaughter”?

5. How is Mary’s discussion with Sam regarding “dessert” an example of verbal irony?

6. Where in the story does the denouement take place? What happens in the denouement?

7. What is the motivation for the crime committed in “Lamb to Slaughter”? How is this motivation established in the beginning of the story?

8. Whom does Mary call after “discovering” the body? What happens next in the story?

9. What conversation between Mary and Sergeant Noonan leads to the destruction of the evidence in “Lamb to Slaughter”?

10. What is significant about O’Malley’s name in “Lamb to Slaughter”?

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