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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. Where in “Lamb to the Slaughter” does the rising action take place?
(a) When Mary calls the police
(b) When Patrick tells Mary he’s leaving her
(c) When the police arrive at Mary’s door
(d) When Mary goes to the store

2. Who is the officer who is asked by another in the kitchen, “What do you think?”
(a) Charlie
(b) O'Malley
(c) Sergeant Noonan
(d) The fingerprint man

3. What does Mary resume doing after Patrick arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Humming
(b) Reading
(c) Cooking
(d) Sewing

4. Patrick tells Mary in the story, “I've thought about it a good deal and I've decided the only thing to do is” what?
(a) Put the baby up for adoption
(b) Get a divorce
(c) Tell you right away
(d) Pray for forgiveness

5. What is Mary’s presumed reason for killing her husband in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Mary kills him because he is an alcoholic
(b) Mary kills him because he is leaving her
(c) Mary kills him because he won’t attend church
(d) Mary kills him because he lost his job

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary calls the police officer’s dear friends of whom in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. According to the narrator, “the detectives kept asking [Mary] a lot of questions. But they always treated her” how?

3. 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”?

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

5. Patrick tells Mary that he’ll give her what after he’s related his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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