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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are people gathering in the town square?
(a) The mayor is making a speech.
(b) They are voting whether to discontinue the lottery.
(c) It is the annual lottery day.
(d) There is a band concert that morning.

2. What does Mr. Summers carry onto the village square?
(a) A black, wooden box.
(b) A milking stool.
(c) The book of rules.
(d) The village flag.

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. What explanation does the late comer give for being late?
(a) She had a cake in the oven.
(b) She forgot what day it is.
(c) Her clock had stopped.
(d) She overslept.

5. Who helps hold the box to keep it steady?
(a) Several of the larger boys.
(b) The mayor and the chief of police.
(c) Mr. Graves and Mr. Summers.
(d) Mr. Martin and his son.

6. Which man holds the winning paper?
(a) Old man Warner.
(b) Mr. Graves.
(c) Bob Martin.
(d) Bill Hutchinson.

7. What is the date of the lottery?
(a) February 2nd
(b) June 27th
(c) April 1st
(d) July 4th

8. How does Jackson suggest that tradition may be questioned?
(a) Old man Warner compares it to the Stone Age.
(b) The village is getting smaller so tradition may die out.
(c) Some people oppose the lottery and some villages have already stopped it.
(d) A lot about the lottery has been forgotten.

9. What does Mrs. Delacroix have in her hands?
(a) A chocolate cake.
(b) The Hutchinson baby.
(c) The lottery flag.
(d) A huge stone.

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

11. Why can Clyde Dunbar not draw for his family?
(a) He is in the military.
(b) He is in the hospital.
(c) He is on duty as fireman.
(d) He is at home with a broken leg.

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

13. Though they do not remember all the ancient ritual, what do the villagers all remember?
(a) The burning of the box.
(b) The stones.
(c) The song.
(d) The march.

14. What is Jackson saying about tradition.
(a) That it is necessary to keep a culture alive.
(b) That very few people question it.
(c) That tradition is better than creating new ways.
(d) That it is bad luck to change it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Mr. Summers exempt from the lottery?

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

3. What does Tessie do with her paper?

4. Who was the last to arrive at the lottery?

5. What happens to Tessie first?

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