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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. Mary calls the police officer’s dear friends of whom in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Hers
(b) Sam
(c) Patrick
(d) Jesus

2. How far along is Mary’s pregnancy in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) 6 months
(b) 8 months
(c) 4 months
(d) 2 months

3. What is a prominent literary element in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Onomatopoeia
(b) Literary allusion
(c) Symbolism
(d) Repetitive verse

4. Mary tells the store clerk that Patrick has caught her without any what?
(a) Vegetables
(b) Meat
(c) Dessert
(d) Beverages

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is the drink that Mary mixes for herself described in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. What does Mary ask Sergeant Noonan to give her as the investigation continues?

4. What is the first thing that Mary says after Patrick has related his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

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