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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 very metropolitan with shiny glass commercial buildings.
(b) It is in the sun with neat houses, green lawns, and flowers everywhere.
(c) It is gloomy and cold looking with gray houses.
(d) It is dusty and dry with the paint peeling off the houses.

2. What is Jackson's main theme in the story?
(a) The value of human life.
(b) The stupidity of blindly following tradition.
(c) The need for tradition in small towns.
(d) The need for change in a community.

3. What trouble does Bobby Martin get into?
(a) He does not respond to his mother's call and his father reprimands him.
(b) He gets his clean clothes all dirty and has to go home and change.
(c) He puts the stones he collected in his pocket.
(d) He gets in a fight with another boy and has a bloody nose.

4. Who needs help from Mr. Graves to open his slip?
(a) Little Dave Hutchinson.
(b) All of the children.
(c) Tessie.
(d) The youngest daughter.

5. How do they list the villagers before the lottery begins?
(a) From the oldest to the youngest.
(b) From the youngest to the oldest.
(c) By heads of families.
(d) In alphabetical order.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound is heard as the papers are opened?

2. What does Jackson hint in the story when Tessie is very late arriving?

3. What is in the black box?

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

5. Who is the first to hold up his slip of paper?

(see the answer key)

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