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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do they list the villagers before the lottery begins?
(a) In alphabetical order.
(b) By heads of families.
(c) From the oldest to the youngest.
(d) From the youngest to the oldest.

2. What element of surprise does Jackson use in the story?
(a) Winning a lottery is usually a good thing and not something to dread.
(b) That the government steps in and stops the lottery.
(c) That Tessie sacrifices herself for her children.
(d) That the community does not know what the

3. How does Jackson suggest that tradition may be questioned?
(a) A lot about the lottery has been forgotten.
(b) Some people oppose the lottery and some villages have already stopped it.
(c) The village is getting smaller so tradition may die out.
(d) Old man Warner compares it to the Stone Age.

4. What is happening when they make any change in the lottery procedure?
(a) The people are becoming better educated.
(b) It is nothing drastic in the minds of the villagers.
(c) It is a break with tradition.
(d) It makes the tradition stronger.

5. Old man Warner suggests that discontinuing the lottery would be doing what?
(a) Taking the life out of the village.
(b) Inviting strangers into the village.
(c) Shaming the ancestors.
(d) Going back to the Stone Age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the men doing before it is time for the lottery to begin?

2. What does Mr. Summers do as soon as he is sworn in?

3. What is the instruction given to the villagers about what to do after they have drawn?

4. How do most of the villagers appear to regard the lottery?

5. What is the tone as the story begins?

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