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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the irony add to the story?FearHumor & suspenseConfusionExcitement
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich is an example of dramatic irony?We know Mary is the killer and the police don't.We know the police will catch the killer.A police officer is killed.A leg of lamb is the murder weapon.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is dramatic irony?We know the police eat the murder weapon.We know Patrick is the murderer.Mary knows the police.Mary is the perfect wife.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat is an example of situational irony?The police eat the murder weapon.We know Mary is the murderer.The "perfect wife" kills her husband.The detective says, "the murder weapon is probably right under our noses."
- 5. Multiple Choice
In the very last line - "And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle." - why does Mary Maloney giggle?
She's gotten away with murder
She knows she's going to jail
She's free of her abusive husband
- 6. Multiple Choice
What do the policemen and detectives think killed Patrick?
a leg of lamb
a large metal object
knives
Mrs. Maloney
- 7. Multiple Choice
From which point of view is the story told?
1st Person (I, me, my)
2nd Person (you, your)
3rd Person Limited (1 character's thoughts)
3rd Person Omniscient (more than 1 character's thoughts)
- 8. Multiple Choice
Identify the type of figurative language in the following excerpt:
”She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man— almost as a sunbather feels in the sun.”
Simile
Repetition
Metaphor
Irony
- 9. Multiple Choice
Why does Mary insist to make the police eat the lamb?
So that the policemen would eliminate the murder weapon.
Because they were hungry.
Because it's hospitality!
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the purpose of Dahl, the author, omitting the details and using implied meaning for what Mr. Maloney's news is to Mary Maloney?
It causes the reader to imagine the news in a terrible way and create sympathy for Mary.
It is not important to the story and moves the events along more quickly.
It creates a sense of dramatic irony because the readers knows what the news is, but Mary does not.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Identify the type of figurative language in the following excerpt:
''It didn’t take long, four or five minutes at most, and she sat very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word.''
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Irony
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