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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What word from the short story refers to the friendly reception and treatment of guests or strangers?
2. What word from the story means a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law?
3. What does Mary say when the police pick up after she calls them?
4. What does Mary take from her husband when he first arrives home in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
5. How many policemen are left in Mary’s house after they’ve all had drinks?
Short Essay Questions
1. What central injustices mark the narrative of “Lamb to Slaughter”?
2. What actions does Mary plot on her way home from the store? How do these actions play out?
3. At what point in the story is Mary’s sense of identity shattered? What does she do to regain her sense of identity?
4. How does Roald Dahl demonstrate black humor through the act of murder in “Lamb to Slaughter”?
5. What crucial information to the story is omitted? Why do you think the author omitted these details?
6. How is Mary’s love for Patrick indicated through imagery in the story?
7. Why do you think the author chooses not to detail Patrick’s story to the reader?
8. After the murder has been committed, what is Mary’s central objective in “Lamb to Slaughter”?
9. How is “climax” defined? Where in “Lamb to the Slaughter” does the climax occur?
10. Where in the story does the denouement take place? What happens in the denouement?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identity in “Lamb to the Slaughter”
a. How does author Dahl explore the theme of identity through the character of Mary in the story? How does Mary’s identity become threatened and what does she do as a result?
b. How does the theme of identity relate differently to the men and women in the story?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the character of Patrick Maloney in the short story. What does Patrick look like? How is his appearance described from Mary’s point of view? How do Patrick’s actions display his personality?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Mary’s “reinvention” of identity in “Lamb to the Slaughter.” How does Mary’s character transform after she returns from the cellar? How does it evolve as she rehearses in front of the mirror? What has happened to Mary’s sense of identity through the narrative?
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