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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 saying about tradition.
(a) That tradition is better than creating new ways.
(b) That very few people question it.
(c) That it is necessary to keep a culture alive.
(d) That it is bad luck to change it.

2. Who is assigned to conduct the lottery?
(a) Mr. Martin.
(b) Mr. Graves.
(c) Mr. Summers.
(d) Mr. Hutchinson.

3. What is on each of the children's papers?
(a) Nothing. They are blank.
(b) Gift certificates.
(c) Colored pictures.
(d) A secret message.

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

5. What does Jackson hint in the story when Tessie is very late arriving?
(a) That Tessie is always late for everything.
(b) That Tessie is not originally from the village.
(c) That Tessie has a premonition of something bad.
(d) That Tessie is a scatter brain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Mrs. Hutchinson locate her husband and children?

3. What is revealing about the social order of the village?

4. What is being used for the first time this year?

5. Is Mr. Summers exempt from the lottery?

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