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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 form an honor guard for the lottery box.
(b) They play an exhibition football game before the lottery.
(c) They keep the younger children off the grass.
(d) They collect stones and bring them to the town square.

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

3. What is Tessie Hutchinson doing when she realizes Bill has the marked slip?
(a) She is bragging to the other women.
(b) She is mentioning that Bill got that slip the last lottery.
(c) She is complaining that the drawing was not fair.
(d) She is jumping up and down with excitement.

4. What is Old man Warner's meaning when he says lottery in June, corn harvest soon?
(a) He thinks the lottery magically makes the harvest good.
(b) He judges time by the lottery.
(c) He thinks that June is too soon for the lottery.
(d) He sees the lottery as a way to fill time until the harvest.

5. Who is assigned to conduct the lottery?
(a) Mr. Graves.
(b) Mr. Hutchinson.
(c) Mr. Martin.
(d) Mr. Summers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though they do not remember all the ancient ritual, what do the villagers all remember?

2. How do most of the villagers appear to regard the lottery?

3. What type of story is THE LOTTERY?

4. What do some people think about discontinuing the lottery?

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

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