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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has the lottery been going on?
(a) For the last five years.
(b) Since the Pilgrims.
(c) Since before people arrived from Europe.
(d) Over several generations.

2. Why is everyone participating, even the Hutchinson children?
(a) Because they have nothing better to do.
(b) Because they will be jailed if they do not.
(c) Because it is a village activity.
(d) Because they are all hypnotized.

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

4. What is the tone as the story begins?
(a) An average day with overcast sky.
(b) Cheerful, bright, and colorful.
(c) Dreary and ominous.
(d) Dry like a newspaper article.

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

6. What does Mr. Summers do as soon as he is sworn in?
(a) Leads the invocation.
(b) Faces and greets the villagers.
(c) Bows low and receives the crown.
(d) Puts his hand on the black box three times.

7. What holiday is mentioned in the story that suggests this village is in America?
(a) Halloween.
(b) Groundhog Day.
(c) The 4th of July.
(d) Christmas.

8. What does the village look like on the morning of the lottery?
(a) It is dusty and dry with the paint peeling off the houses.
(b) It is gloomy and cold looking with gray houses.
(c) It is in the sun with neat houses, green lawns, and flowers everywhere.
(d) It is very metropolitan with shiny glass commercial buildings.

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

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

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

12. 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 was the only one who protested the procedure.
(d) She drew the dot because she was late.

13. Why are the children running around that morning?
(a) It is Saturday and there is no school.
(b) The teachers are in the lottery so they come to see them.
(c) Lottery Day is a school holiday.
(d) Lottery Day is a special holiday for children.

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

15. In a large village, how long might the lottery last?
(a) All day because they have more activities in the square.
(b) Not long because of better equipment.
(c) An hour because the slips were mailed to the people.
(d) As much as seven days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What explanation does the late comer give for being late?

2. What is Mrs. Hutchinson's behavior as she makes her way to her family?

3. Why does his oldest son not draw for him?

4. What does Mrs. Dunbar hold in her hands?

5. When is the lottery held each year?

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