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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 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) Alibi
(b) Crying
(c) Acting
(d) Explanation

2. What is Mary doing as she enters her home from the store?
(a) Laughing and giggling
(b) Crying and thinking
(c) Frowning and praying
(d) Humming and smiling

3. Mary tells herself as she walks home from the store, “That’s the way. Do Everything” how?
(a) Right and natural
(b) Nice and stealthily
(c) Fast and accurate
(d) Tame and normal

4. The narrator states in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter,” that the time when Mary’s husband arrives home is always what kind of “time of day” for her?
(a) Blissful
(b) Mediocre
(c) Maddening
(d) Jealous

5. What is described in the Thermos bucket in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) A bottle of beer
(b) Stagnant water
(c) Fresh ice cubes
(d) A bottle of champagne

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the officer’s reply when another says from the kitchen, "She wants us to finish it. She said so. Be doing her a favor”?

2. All of Mary’s movements are said to be what, after Patrick has told her his story in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. What is Mary’s last name in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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

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

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