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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. 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
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”?
(a) Lava
(b) The sun
(c) A geyser
(d) A fire
3. How many table lamps are described in the room in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 1
(d) 3
4. What is the presumed setting of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) The United States
(b) Canada
(c) France
(d) England
5. How many police officers initially arrive after Mary calls the police?
(a) 4
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 2
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of look describes Mary’s eyes in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
2. 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”?
3. How are Mary’s eyes described in the story?
4. What “unusual” thing does Patrick do after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
5. Who arrives after the police detectives to investigate Patrick’s death?
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