Characters
Setting
Plot & Events
Vocabulary
Thinking & Inferences
100

This woman is the main character in Lamb to the Slaughter 

Who is Mary Maloney?

100

Lamb to the Slaughter  mostly takes place in this room

What is the living room?

100

Mary kills her husband with this object

What is a frozen leg of lamb?

100

"detective" is someone who _________ crimes

What is investigates/solves

100

Mary smiiles because she feels ______ after the murder

What is safe/relieved?

200

This is Mary Maloney's job

What is a housewife?

200

The story happens in this country

What is England?

200

After the murder, Mary goes to this place

What is the grocery store?

200

"Nervous" means you feel ________

What is worried/scared?

200

The police never find the weapon because ______

What is they eat it?

300

He is Mary's husband and works for the police

Who is Patrick Maloney?

300

Billy Weaver comes to this city for work

What is Bath?

300

Mary cooks this and serves it to the police officers

What is leg of lamb?

300

If something is "suspicious", it feels _________

What is strange/not normal?

300

Billy feels uncomfortable because the landlady is _______

What is too friendly/strange?

400

This young man travels to Bath in  The Landlady

Who is Billy Weaver?

400

Billy stays in this type of place, not a hotel

What is a boarding house?

400

Billy chooses the boarding house because it is this

What is cheap?

400

"Stuffed" animals are animals that are ______

What is dead & preserved?

400

The landlady's pets are suspicious because they do not _______

What is move/look alive?

500

This strange woman owns the boarding house

Who is the landlady?

500

The landlady's house feels quiet, warm and _________?

What is comfortable/cozy?

500

The landlady offers Billy this drink

What is tea?

500

"Boarding house" means a place where you ______

What is stay & pay to live?

500

Both stories show that people can look ______ but be dangerous 

What is normal/friendly?