"Lamb to the Slaughter" Quiz

The real reason Mary goes to the store is that she needs ___.

• food for dinner

• an alibi

• some time to think

• a distraction

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Mary attempts to put the police officers at ease by ___.

• flirting with them

• confessing to the crime

• offering them drinks

• hiding the murder weapon

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The protagonist of the story is Mary because ___.

• Mary is initially the most innocent character in the story

• we should feel sorry for her since Patrick was cheating on her

• Mary is the central character of the story

• Mary wins in the end of the story

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

By using the 3rd person limited point-of-view, the author is able to show ___.

• how the husband feels about leaving Mary

• the detectives' thoughts about who may have killed Patrick

• the love Mary felt for her husband and why she was driven to kill him

• how Sam the grocer really felt about Mary

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is Mary's motive for going to get the lamb from the freezer?

• She wants to find a weapon to use for killing Patrick.

• She is nauseated at the idea of eating what she had already cooked for dinner.

• She thinks she should go about her business as usual, and then things will be alright.

• She thinks that she can win Patrick back with her delicious cooking.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

When Mary kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, this is an example of ___ conflict.

• person vs. person

• person vs. self

• person vs. nature

• person vs. technology

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

When the detectives are eating the murder weapon Mary used, which shows that we know something that they don't, this action is an example of ___ irony.

• verbal

• situational

• dramatic

• international

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

When the detective says that he's sure that the weapon has to be right under their noses, he's using ___ irony.

• verbal

• situational

• dramatic

• international

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Patrick is an antagonist in this story because ___.

• he is in direct conflict with Mary, the protagonist

• he is such a two-timing cheater

• he dies, and whoever dies is the antagonist of a story

• he is the "bad" guy in the story

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The setting of this story is the Maloney home in the ___.

• 2010's

• 1920's or 30's

• 1950's or 60's

• 1990's

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3