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

2. What are the women doing before the lottery?
(a) Avoicing each other's eyes.
(b) Running around looking for their children.
(c) Standing together and gossiping.
(d) Putting up the bunting.

3. What is the age of majority in the village?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty-one.

4. What does Mr. Graves carry onto the village square?
(a) A three-legged stool.
(b) A roster of the village people.
(c) An American flag.
(d) A trumpet to begin the ceremony.

5. Which man holds the winning paper?
(a) Bob Martin.
(b) Bill Hutchinson.
(c) Old man Warner.
(d) Mr. Graves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is assigned to conduct the lottery?

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

3. What is on Tessie Hutchinson's paper?

4. What is Mr. Summers' position in the town?

5. In general, what type of village is the setting of the story?

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