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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the men doing before it is time for the lottery to begin?
(a) Standing in a group talking about tractors and rain.
(b) Standing together and talking about women.
(c) Standing together and talking politics.
(d) Standing in a group but not talking.

2. Who is the first to hold up his slip of paper?
(a) Old man Warner.
(b) Bill Hutchinson.
(c) Mr. Summers.
(d) Mr. Graves.

3. What is stressed as important to the lottery all through the story?
(a) That everyone knows how the tradition began.
(b) That family is the least important thing in the village.
(c) That everyone does not need to be present.
(d) That it is a tradition that must be continued.

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

5. What is Old man Warner's meaning when he says lottery in June, corn harvest soon?
(a) He judges time by the lottery.
(b) He sees the lottery as a way to fill time until the harvest.
(c) He thinks the lottery magically makes the harvest good.
(d) He thinks that June is too soon for the lottery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Mr. Summers exempt from the lottery?

2. Old man Warner suggests that discontinuing the lottery would be doing what?

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

4. What is Tessie doing in the center of the circle of her friends, neighbors, and family?

5. What does Mr. Summers carry onto the village square?

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