10_LIT_Lamb to the Slaughter - Parts 2-6

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21 questions
Do the activities after reading part 2 of the story.
The story is here: https://www.manhassetschools.org/cms/lib8/NY01913789/Centricity/Domain/275/English%209ID/Short%20Stories/lamb_to_the_slaughter1.pdf

Translate the words from Part 2 of the story. Copy into your notebook.
bewildered
frowning
motionless
shadow
muscle
dazed horror
fuss
reject
occurred to her
managed
nausea
desire
vomit
cellar
deep freeze
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10

What does Mary enjoy most about time with her husband after work?

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10

What does the husband drink?

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10

How does Mary know that something is wrong with her husband?

10

What did her husband tell Mary? How do you know?

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10

How does Mary feel after her husband tells her the news?

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10

Why does the husband go out after their conversation?

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10

What does Mary do after she hears the news from her husband?

Part 3
Translate the words from Part 3 of the story. Copy into your notebook.
steel club
pace
violence
ridiculous
extraordinary
penalty
relief
certainly
shoved
tidied
peculiar
rehearsed
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8

What does Mary do to her husband? How does her behavior create situational irony? Choose TWO answers.

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8

What will Mary do next, now that she’s come out of her state of shock? Choose TWO answers.

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6

Find the lines that tell you what Mary does with the lamb after using it as a weapon. Copy the line.

Part 4
Translate the words from Part 4 of the story. Copy into your notebook.
grocery shop
counter
cocked his head on one side
pleasantly
suggest
glanced
wrapped
frantic
grief
humming
parcel
doubled up
welled up
knelt
sobbed
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6

Why does Mary go to the grocery before calling the police?

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6

It soon becomes clear that Mary really did love her husband. How do you know? (Copy the sentences that helps you answer)

Part 5
Translate the words from Part 5 of the story. Copy into your notebook.
precinct
kneeling
briefly
muttering
corpse
immediately
cheerful
departed
stretcher
exceptionally
cheerful
departed
stretcher
exceptionally
yard
Occasionally
blow
administered
blunt
weapon
premises
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8

Mary knows the detective because -.

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6
"Later, one of the detectives came up and sat beside her. Did she know, he asked, of anything in the house that could’ve been used as the _______ ? Would she mind having a look around to see if anything was missing—a very big _______, for example, or a heavy metal _______."
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6

What favor does Mary ask of the detective?

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6

Why does Mary want the policemen to eat the lamb?

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6

Why does Mary giggle at the end of the story?

Part 6
Translate the words from Part 6 of the story. Copy into your notebook.
beside
spanner
vase
garage
torch
chink
mantle
weary
trifle exasperated
Sergeant
beside
spanner
vase
garage
torch
chink
mantle
weary
trifle exasperated
Sergeant
awfully
strictly
persuaded
a little nip of whiskey
awkwardly
consoling
wandered
tearful
allowed
remain
decent hospitality
hesitating
persuaded
sloppy
club
skull
smashed
sledgehammer
belched
giggle
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5

Which of the following shows situational irony?

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5

Why does Mary go shopping for groceries?

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5

It is an irony that the grieving widow is also the —

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5

Dramatic irony takes place when Mary tells the police that—