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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do they assemble when it is time to begin the ceremony?
(a) Coming together in family groups.
(b) In double file lines.
(c) Crowding forward to try and be first to draw.
(d) Making a huge circle in the town square.

2. What does the village look like on the morning of the lottery?
(a) It is gloomy and cold looking with gray houses.
(b) It is very metropolitan with shiny glass commercial buildings.
(c) It is in the sun with neat houses, green lawns, and flowers everywhere.
(d) It is dusty and dry with the paint peeling off the houses.

3. Who is the first person called to draw for the lottery?
(a) Mr. Martin.
(b) Mrs. Graves.
(c) Tessie Hutchinson.
(d) Mr. Adams.

4. What are the men doing before it is time for the lottery to begin?
(a) Standing in a group talking about tractors and rain.
(b) Standing together and talking about women.
(c) Standing in a group but not talking.
(d) Standing together and talking politics.

5. What does Tessie try to do before Bill draws for the family?
(a) Include her daughter's family in the drawing.
(b) Run home to change clothes.
(c) Stand where the newspaper photographer can get her photo.
(d) Find her three children to stand with their father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to hold up his slip of paper?

2. What does Tessie do with her paper?

3. What is Tessie doing in the center of the circle of her friends, neighbors, and family?

4. Who gets to go first in the second drawing?

5. What does Mr. Summers carry onto the village square?

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