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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the women doing before the lottery?
(a) Running around looking for their children.
(b) Putting up the bunting.
(c) Avoicing each other's eyes.
(d) Standing together and gossiping.

2. What does Jackson hint in the story when Tessie is very late arriving?
(a) That Tessie is always late for everything.
(b) That Tessie is a scatter brain.
(c) That Tessie is not originally from the village.
(d) That Tessie has a premonition of something bad.

3. What are some villages rumored to be doing with their lottery?
(a) Adding a consolation prize.
(b) Discontinuing it.
(c) Combining it with another holiday.
(d) Holding parades before the lottery.

4. Who will participate in the ritual?
(a) The children only because it is their holiday.
(b) All Tessie's friends, neighbors, and family members.
(c) Only the men of the village.
(d) The women because Tessie is a woman.

5. 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.

6. What does Mr. Graves carry onto the village square?
(a) A three-legged stool.
(b) A roster of the village people.
(c) An American flag.
(d) A trumpet to begin the ceremony.

7. What does Tessie try to do before Bill draws for the family?
(a) Run home to change clothes.
(b) Find her three children to stand with their father.
(c) Include her daughter's family in the drawing.
(d) Stand where the newspaper photographer can get her photo.

8. Where does Mrs. Hutchinson locate her husband and children?
(a) At the front of the group.
(b) Off to one side of the group.
(c) In the middle of the group.
(d) At the end of the group.

9. What is Tessie doing in the center of the circle of her friends, neighbors, and family?
(a) Sitting on a makeshift throne.
(b) Dancing the lottery jig.
(c) Holding out her hands and crying that it is not fair.
(d) Gloating that she is the winner.

10. What does everyone get at this point?
(a) Blank papers.
(b) Stones.
(c) Refreshments.
(d) Instructions.

11. Who is to draw for the Watson family?
(a) Mrs. Watson.
(b) Mr. Watson's brother.
(c) The tall Watson boy.
(d) Mr. Summers.

12. What does Jackson suggest about civic prominence in the character of Mr. Summers.
(a) That age is the criterion for civic leadership.
(b) That everyone is equal regardless of wealth.
(c) That Summers has no real power in the village.
(d) That wealth is the standard for importance.

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

14. What is the procedure after Bill reveals that his family is the one?
(a) The Hutchinson family will draw straws to see who takes the prize.
(b) The village people will vote for their favorite Hutchinson family member.
(c) The youngest Hutchinson will claim the prize.
(d) Slips will be put in the box for every member of the Hutchinson family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is everyone participating, even the Hutchinson children?

2. Who is the last person accounted for before the lottery begins?

3. What happens to Tessie first?

4. What is the instruction given to the villagers about what to do after they have drawn?

5. What is Tessie Hutchinson doing when she realizes Bill has the marked slip?

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