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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Going back to the Stone Age.
(d) Shaming the ancestors.

3. What is in the black box?
(a) Wood chips.
(b) Beans.
(c) Stones.
(d) Slips of paper.

4. Why does the lottery begin late in this village?
(a) Because it took longer for the boys to find stones.
(b) Because someone forgot to prepar the lottery slips of paper.
(c) Because they have trouble locating the lottery box.
(d) Because there are so few people, the drawing only last a few hours.

5. What does everyone get at this point?
(a) Blank papers.
(b) Instructions.
(c) Stones.
(d) Refreshments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening when they make any change in the lottery procedure?

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

3. What are some villages rumored to be doing with their lottery?

4. Who needs help from Mr. Graves to open his slip?

5. Which man holds the winning paper?

(see the answer key)

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