WorksheetsLamb to the Slaughter
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
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.
Mr. Maloney can be characterized as ___________
Honorable and innocent
Disloyal and untrustworthy
Gentlemanly and kind
Funny
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Who wrote The Lamb To The Slaughter?
Ernest Hemingway
George Washington Jr.
Roald Dahl
Mary Maloney
Mary Maloney is peaceful in the opening of the story.
True
False
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.
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
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.
