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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lamb to the Slaughter.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Patrick is described as sitting how in a chair in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Sleepily
(b) Slouchy
(c) Loosely
(d) Stiffly

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the officer who is asked by another in the kitchen, “What do you think?”

2. The narrator compares “that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together” to what in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. What is the first sound that Mary hears of her husband’s arrival in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

5. What does Mary buy at the store after she’s killed Patrick?

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