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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What serious formality occurs before the lottery begins?
(a) The blessing of the box.
(b) The pledge of allegiance.
(c) The singing of the village anthem.
(d) The swearing in of the officials.

2. What is being used for the first time this year?
(a) Slips of paper instead of wood chips.
(b) Black and white ping pong balls.
(c) A new black box.
(d) A bigger stool.

3. What does Tessie's paper mean?
(a) She is out of the lottery.
(b) She has been chosen.
(c) She will have to draw again.
(d) She gets to select the winner.

4. In the story, what idea does Shirley Jackson carefully avoid?
(a) The odds of winning.
(b) The time it takes to hold the lottery.
(c) Sweepstakes.
(d) Winning the lottery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many slips do the Hutchinson's take out of the box?

2. Why does the lottery begin late in this village?

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

4. Why is everyone participating, even the Hutchinson children?

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

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