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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jackson satirizing by having the children participate so willingly in the stoning?
(a) Bringing children up with adults' biases.
(b) Hansel and Gretle.
(c) Well behaved children.
(d) Parents who let their children run their lives.

2. Why does Tessie try to add her daughter's family to Bill Hutchinson's second drawing?
(a) She wants her daughter to have a chance to win, too.
(b) The more people in the drawing, the greater chance she has of not getting the dot.
(c) She feels the need to have all her family with her.
(d) She is trying to get the whole thing done over.

3. When Mr. Summers says it is time, what does everyone do?
(a) Look at their papers and hold them up.
(b) Tear their papers into small pieces.
(c) Look at their papers and not show them.
(d) Drop their papers in the box.

4. Why do they stop using the wood chips?
(a) They want to be more modern.
(b) People get splinters form the wood.
(c) Trees are getting scarce.
(d) The village population is growing.

5. Where does Mrs. Hutchinson locate her husband and children?
(a) In the middle of the group.
(b) At the front of the group.
(c) Off to one side of the group.
(d) At the end of the group.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does everyone get at this point?

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

3. What happens to Tessie first?

4. Who tells the boys what to do on the morning of the lottery?

5. What is stressed as important to the lottery all through the story?

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