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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 the village look like on the morning of the lottery?
(a) It is in the sun with neat houses, green lawns, and flowers everywhere.
(b) It is dusty and dry with the paint peeling off the houses.
(c) It is very metropolitan with shiny glass commercial buildings.
(d) It is gloomy and cold looking with gray houses.

2. Who is the last person accounted for before the lottery begins?
(a) Tessie Hutchinson.
(b) Mrs. Dunbar.
(c) The tall Watson boy.
(d) Old man Warner.

3. Is Mr. Summers exempt from the lottery?
(a) No. He calls out his own name, too.
(b) No. But he is the only one allowed to look into the box while drawing.
(c) Yes. But he makes a pretense of drawing anyway.
(d) Yes. Otherwise they would have to get a new administrator every year.

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

5. 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) Winning the lottery.
(d) Sweepstakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is assigned to conduct the lottery?

2. What is Jackson's first element of surprise in the story?

3. What does Mrs. Delacroix have in her hands?

4. What is Old man Warner's meaning when he says lottery in June, corn harvest soon?

5. Where is Tessie by the time everyone has their stones?

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