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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 literary style that applies to “Lamb to the Slaughter” refers to the use of the grotesque, morbid, or absurd for darkly comic purposes?
(a) Black humor
(b) Assonance
(c) Metaphor
(d) Alliteration

2. Where does Mary sit in the bedroom after killing Patrick?
(a) At the foot of the bed
(b) On the side of the bed
(c) In front of the window
(d) Before the mirror

3. What is Patrick’s profession in the short story?
(a) He is a policeman
(b) He is a truck driver
(c) He is a doctor
(d) He is a taxicab driver

4. What is Mary doing as she awaits her husband’s arrival in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Reading
(b) Painting
(c) Sewing
(d) Listening to the radio

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mary say there’s “plenty of meat and stuff” after Patrick’s arrival?

2. What word used in describing the story’s setting refers to a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves or drawers?

3. Mary overhears the police detective telling another that the store clerk said Mary’s behavior was what?

4. Patrick is described as sitting how in a chair in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. “Lamb to the Slaughter” illustrates author Roald Dahl’s fascination with what literary genre?

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