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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why is Mary Maloney smiling as she waits her husband’s return at the beginning of the story?
She knows she will get even with him that night.
She loves him and looks forward to seeing him.
She knows he won’t speak to her for a while, and she is looking forward to the peace and quiet.
She likes being able to have a drink of whiskey with him.
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat is Mr. Maloney’s job?Minister, member of the clergyPolice detectiveButcherStock broker
- 3. Multiple Choice
Mr. Maloney can be characterized as ___________
Honorable and innocent
Disloyal and untrustworthy
Gentlemanly and kind
Funny
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat is Mrs. Maloney’s motive for going to get the lamb from the freezer?She wants to use it to hit Patrick.She is nauseated at the idea of eating what she already made for dinner.She thinks she should go about her business as usual and then things will be all right.She thinks she can win Patrick back with her cooking.
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat do the police do with the murder weapon?They eat it without knowing it is the murder weapon.They leave it in the garage.They eat it although they know it is the murder weapon.Nothing. They never find the spanner.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why does Mary Maloney kill her husband Patrick?
He's leaving her
Pregnancy has made her crazy
She's tired of looking after him
She's having an affair
- 7. Multiple Choice
What was the Maloney's usual habit for dinner on a Thursday night?
They ate lamb
They usually went out for dinner
They had friends around
- 8. Multiple Choice
Why does Mrs. Maloney go to the grocer?
To create an alibi
Because she needs ingredients for dinner
Because Patrick told her to
To see Sam, whom she's having an affair with
- 9. Multiple Choice
Why do the policemen eat the lamb?
Mary made them eat the meal.
They want to help destroy the evidence.
The chief has told them to eat the meal.
They are hungry and don’t want to offend Mrs. Maloney.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Why does the detective say that the murder weapon “ought to be easy to find”?
He knows that it is in the house.
He knows that it must be very big because it damaged the skull so badly.
He knows Mrs. Maloney committed the crime.
He knows it is too big to be carried at all.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Why does Mrs. Maloney giggle at the end of the story?
She is responding to the ironic remark about the weapon being right under their noses.
She needs to be put in a mental hospital.
She is celebrating that she got away with murder and the case will never be solved.
She is glad that her husband is dead.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Identify the type of irony.
The police are looking for the murder weapon because that is the key to them finding the murderer, but they unknowingly eat the murder weapon instead.
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
- 13. Multiple Choice
Based on the details in the story, you can conclude that the setting of the story most likely is
A small town in the early 2000’s
A house in the 1950’s
A cottage by the sea in 1910
A New York apartment during any time period
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who wrote The Lamb To The Slaughter?
Ernest Hemingway
George Washington Jr.
Roald Dahl
Mary Maloney
- 15. Multiple Choice
Mary Maloney is peaceful in the opening of the story.
True
False
- 16. Multiple Choice
In the beginning of the rising plot Mary Maloney is
planning dinner.
waiting for her husband to come home from work.
upset about the grocery bill.
planning to murder her husband.
- 17. Multiple Choice
What does Mary utilize to hit her husband on the head?
A pack of ground beef
A baseball bat
A frozen leg of lamb
A turkey leg
- 18. Multiple Choice
Choose the BEST answer.
Mary goes to the grocery store
to buy cleaning products.
to buy more items for dinner.
to get out and clear her head after she struck her husband.
to go to the grocery store and create an alibi for the crime.
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