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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do they stop using the wood chips?
(a) They want to be more modern.
(b) Trees are getting scarce.
(c) People get splinters form the wood.
(d) The village population is growing.

2. What is the irony of Tessie Hutchinson drawing the black dot?
(a) Dessenters are a threat to tradition and must be removed.
(b) She was the only one who protested the procedure.
(c) Tessie did not know the tradition.
(d) She drew the dot because she was late.

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

4. Why does Tessie try to add her daughter's family to Bill Hutchinson's second drawing?
(a) The more people in the drawing, the greater chance she has of not getting the dot.
(b) She feels the need to have all her family with her.
(c) She wants her daughter to have a chance to win, too.
(d) She is trying to get the whole thing done over.

5. What does Mrs. Dunbar hold in her hands?
(a) More moderate stones than Mrs. Delacroix.
(b) A bag full of small stones.
(c) The Hutchinson baby.
(d) A slingshot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is revealing about the social order of the village?

2. What is Mr. Zanini's distinction at the lottery?

3. How many slips do the Hutchinson's take out of the box?

4. Who is assigned to conduct the lottery?

5. Why are people gathering in the town square?

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