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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 revealing about the social order of the village?
(a) The men and women are not together.
(b) The children and running around unsupervised.
(c) The women hold a superior position.
(d) The men are drinking ale.

2. In a large village, how long might the lottery last?
(a) Not long because of better equipment.
(b) As much as seven days.
(c) An hour because the slips were mailed to the people.
(d) All day because they have more activities in the square.

3. 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.

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

5. What sound is heard as the papers are opened?
(a) The women speaking all at once.
(b) Nothing. It is very quiet.
(c) A collective sigh.
(d) The school marching band.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Clyde Dunbar not draw for his family?

2. What is Jackson saying about tradition.

3. Who will participate in the ritual?

4. Is Mr. Summers exempt from the lottery?

5. What does Tessie's paper mean?

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