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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the traditional job of the village boys on Lottery Day?
(a) They collect stones and bring them to the town square.
(b) They form an honor guard for the lottery box.
(c) They play an exhibition football game before the lottery.
(d) They keep the younger children off the grass.

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

3. What do some people think about discontinuing the lottery?
(a) Some people want to change the date of the lottery.
(b) Some people want to discontinue the lottery.
(c) Some people want to hold the lottery twice a year.
(d) Some people want to make the lottery grander.

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

5. What is on Tessie Hutchinson's paper?
(a) A message.
(b) A black spot.
(c) The number 6.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which man holds the winning paper?

2. What is Jackson saying about tradition.

3. What does Tessie's paper mean?

4. What is in the black box?

5. What does Tessie try to do before Bill draws for the family?

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