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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. Who is offered more as Mary listens to the policemen in the kitchen eating?
(a) Sergeant Noonan
(b) Mary
(c) Patrick
(d) Charlie

2. Where was author Roald Dahl born?
(a) Poland
(b) Wales
(c) Norway
(d) Russia

3. What does Mary attempt to do when Patrick tells her to “sit down” after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Call the police
(b) Make him a second drink
(c) Go to the grocery store
(d) Call her mother

4. Mary tells herself on the way home from the store that if she does things correctly “there’ll be no need for any” what at all?
(a) Crying
(b) Acting
(c) Explanation
(d) Alibi

5. As Patrick begins to talk to Mary, the lamplight leaves what aspects of his face in shadow?
(a) His cheek and eyebrow
(b) His hair and ears
(c) His nose and hair
(d) His chin and mouth

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary is said to be the wife of what after killing her husband?

2. What does Mary take from her husband when he first arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. What is the presumed setting of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

4. What does Mary say when the police pick up after she calls them?

5. How is the drink that Mary mixes for Patrick described after he arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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