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Could you please answer in easy sentences; my english isn't very good. Thank you.

Teachers tend to ask 2 types of questions--easy ones where the answers can be found right in the story.  These questions tend to be ones that are about what happened in the story. A few examples of these types of questions:

• How did Mary Maloney kill her husband?

• How did Mary Maloney get rid of the evidence of her murder?

• What did Mary Maloney tell the grocer that helped her to create her story of innocence?

• What did Mary Maloney's huband say to her that made her so angry?

The answers to these types of questions can all be found in the story itself as you read.

The other types of questions that teachers tend to ask are harder questions, where the answer isn't right there in the story.  These ones make  you think very hard about what happened, and to guess about things that haven't happened.  They ask you to use clues from the story to guess what is going on that isn't super obvious.  Here are some examples of these harder questions:

• Why did the policemen believe Mary Maloney's story?

• Write a scene that describes what happens after the story ends.

• How did Mary's personality change throughout the story?

• Explain in more detail why you think her husband was leaving her.

These types of questions ask you to guess things, based on clues in the story itself.  But you have to fill in the gaps.

I hope that these comments helped. Good luck!

1) What is Patrick's job?

2) What is Mary doing at the beginning of the story?

3) When Patrick returns, what does Mary notice about him?

4) What does Mary cook for dinner?

5) Why does she cook that for dinner?

6) What causes Mary to hit him in the head with the leg of lamb?

7) What does Mary do before she calls the police? 

8) What was the murder weapon?

9) What was ironic about the policeman's statement that the murder weapon was "right under our noses"?

What are the common themes in this story?

Outline the plot line of the story.

Who is the protagonist?  Antagonist?  How do you know?

Which character(s) do you identify with most?  Why?

What would you do differently if you had been in any of the character's shoes?  Why would you act this way?

Write and describe some of the literary elements that Dahl uses in "Lamb to the Slaughter"