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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. According to the narrator, after Patrick tells Mary his story, “Her first instinct was to” do what?
(a) Run out the front door
(b) Scream and slap him
(c) Not believe any of it, to reject it all
(d) Clean the house

2. What is the “small favor” that Mary asks of Sergeant Noonan and the other officers?
(a) To let her take a bath
(b) To eat dinner
(c) To leave
(d) To let her go to sleep

3. What member of the investigative team departs after the body has been carried out on a stretcher?
(a) A police photographer
(b) Charlie
(c) The fingerprint man
(d) A doctor

4. What does Mary tell the police detectives she went to the store to buy when they question her?
(a) Wine
(b) Meat
(c) Vegetables
(d) A newspaper

5. Mary overhears the police detective telling another that the store clerk said Mary’s behavior was what?
(a) Quite normal
(b) Overly giddy
(c) Very strange
(d) Slightly paranoid

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that Mary “loved to” do what “in the presence of this man” (Patrick) in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. From what narrative tense is “Lamb to the Slaughter” related?

3. Who is the officer who is asked by another in the kitchen, “What do you think?”

4. How long does Patrick remain standing before he crashes to the carpet?

5. Mary is described as loving the way that Patrick remains silent about his what, in the beginning of the short story?

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