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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of The Lottery?
(a) It is a method of deciding who will adopt a baby.
(b) It is a game to win a trip to America.
(c) It is a method of deciding who needs to die as an offering.
(d) It is a game to win enough money for two years wages.

2. What is the name of the synagogue that straddles the "Jewish/Human fault line" (10)?
(a) The Trachimbrod Synagogue.
(b) The Shalom Temple.
(c) The Sloucher Synagogue.
(d) The Upright Synagogue.

3. How many entries did the Rabbi receive for the lottery?
(a) 49.
(b) 7.
(c) 52.
(d) 114.

4. What evidence does Yankel, Brod's "father," give that Brod's "mother" loved him?
(a) Love letters that Yankel wrote to himself with his left hand.
(b) Jewelry her "mother" gave him.
(c) Books Brod's mother gave him.
(d) Photographs.

5. Who does Alex fall in love with?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Chana.

6. Which statement would most accurately describe Brod?
(a) Brod is beautiful and lonely.
(b) Brod is blind and grumpy.
(c) Brod is blissfully happy.
(d) Brod is crippled, but beautiful.

7. What does Alex claim to be?
(a) A lady's man.
(b) Celibate.
(c) An accountant.
(d) An excellent cook.

8. In "The Lottery, 1791," who wins the lottery?
(a) Sofiowka.
(b) The Rabbi.
(c) Yankel.
(d) Grandfather.

9. Concerning marriage, what does Yankel request of Brod?
(a) He asks her to wait until he dies.
(b) He asks that she choose someone rich.
(c) He asks that she choose someone for love.
(d) He asks her to never get married.

10. Who wins the Trachimday parade game?
(a) Yankel.
(b) Brod.
(c) Sofiowka.
(d) Shalom.

11. What is Yankel doing before he is told he will be a father?
(a) Flirting with another woman.
(b) Working in the fields.
(c) Listening to the Book of Recurrent Dreams.
(d) Working at the flour mill.

12. Who claims that it was Trachim who drove into the river?
(a) Sofiowka.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Yankel.
(d) Shalom.

13. Why does Alex misuse words?
(a) He is not a native English speaker.
(b) He cannot spell.
(c) He is illiterate.
(d) Hetries to be smarter than he is.

14. What does Sammy Davis Junior, Junior do to the shirt that she was given to look official?
(a) She eats part of it.
(b) She has thrown it away.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She ripped it.

15. What happens to Jonathan's documents?
(a) They were stolen.
(b) Alex ate them.
(c) Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior ate them.
(d) The police confiscated them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brod sees a picture in her telescope. What is written on the back?

2. According to Alex, what is Grandfather like after the trip to Lutsk?

3. What does Yankel have in his hands when he dies?

4. In "The Beginning of the World Often Comes," who finds debris in the river?

5. What name is chosen for the shtetl in a lottery?

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