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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mary’s response when she sees Patrick’s body after returning from the store?
(a) She begins crying
(b) She laughs
(c) She kicks the body
(d) She runs and hides

2. The narrator compares “that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together” to what in the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Lava
(b) A geyser
(c) The sun
(d) A fire

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

4. Author Roald Dahl was born in what year?
(a) 1932
(b) 1961
(c) 1916
(d) 1897

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Patrick tells Mary that what he has to say will be what to her in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

2. What food item does Mary offer to Patrick after he arrives home?

3. Mary tells the police detective that she doesn’t own any items like he suggested for the murder weapon, but that there might be some things like that where?

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

5. What day of the week is it in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Mary call after “discovering” the body? What happens next in the story?

2. Why does Mary giggle at the end of “Lamb to Slaughter”?

3. How is Biblical allusion depicted through the title of “Lamb to Slaughter”?

4. How is Mary’s transformation metaphorically depicted in her descent into the cellar?

5. Where does the rising action take place in the narrative? What happens in the rising action of the story?

6. What is the central example of dramatic irony in “Lamb to Slaughter”?

7. How is the theme of passivity in “Lamb to the Slaughter” illustrated through Patrick’s character?

8. What is ironic about Mary’s answer to Sam regarding “meat” in “Lamb to Slaughter”?

9. What conversation between Mary and Sergeant Noonan leads to the destruction of the evidence in “Lamb to Slaughter”?

10. How would you compare the style of “Lamb to the Slaughter” to other horror short stories?

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