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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. Before Mary commits the crime of murder, she exhibits the qualities of what archetype or stereotype in the story?
(a) The obedient housewife
(b) The loving mother
(c) The loyal maid
(d) The sassy mistress

2. What is the first sound that Mary hears of her husband’s arrival in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Singing
(b) Tires on the gravel
(c) Coughing
(d) A creaking gate

3. What color is Patrick’s second drink that he makes for himself described as?
(a) Black
(b) Light brown
(c) Dark amber
(d) Light crimson

4. What is the presumed setting of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Canada
(b) England
(c) France
(d) The United States

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary tells the store clerk that Patrick has caught her without any what?

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 described in the Thermos bucket in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

4. What refers to the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed?

5. What is a literary technique used to develop suspense in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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