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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells the boys what to do on the morning of the lottery?
(a) Their mothers.
(b) The village council.
(c) No one, they all know their responsibility.
(d) Their fathers.

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

3. When is the lottery held each year?
(a) At the beginning of spring.
(b) Before the corn harvest.
(c) At Thanksgiving.
(d) During the full moon.

4. What is Mr. Zanini's distinction at the lottery?
(a) He is the first one to draw in the lottery.
(b) He is the oldest man at the lottery.
(c) He is the last one to draw a slip from the black box.
(d) He is the only single man there.

5. What does the lottery hint at?
(a) Religion.
(b) Recreation.
(c) Education.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the lottery been going on?

2. What is stressed as important to the lottery all through the story?

3. What is Jackson saying about tradition.

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

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

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