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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Delacroix have in her hands?
(a) A chocolate cake.
(b) The Hutchinson baby.
(c) The lottery flag.
(d) A huge stone.

2. In a large village, how long might the lottery last?
(a) Not long because of better equipment.
(b) An hour because the slips were mailed to the people.
(c) As much as seven days.
(d) All day because they have more activities in the square.

3. What trouble does Bobby Martin get into?
(a) He gets in a fight with another boy and has a bloody nose.
(b) He does not respond to his mother's call and his father reprimands him.
(c) He puts the stones he collected in his pocket.
(d) He gets his clean clothes all dirty and has to go home and change.

4. What are some villages rumored to be doing with their lottery?
(a) Discontinuing it.
(b) Holding parades before the lottery.
(c) Combining it with another holiday.
(d) Adding a consolation prize.

5. What is Jackson's main theme in the story?
(a) The need for change in a community.
(b) The need for tradition in small towns.
(c) The stupidity of blindly following tradition.
(d) The value of human life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Has there ever been any other breaks with tradition?

2. Which stones are the most prized for use in the lottery?

3. What is in the black box?

4. Why is everyone participating, even the Hutchinson children?

5. What is Old man Warner's meaning when he says lottery in June, corn harvest soon?

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