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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the men doing before it is time for the lottery to begin?
(a) Standing together and talking politics.
(b) Standing in a group but not talking.
(c) Standing in a group talking about tractors and rain.
(d) Standing together and talking about women.

3. What is revealing about the social order of the village?
(a) The men and women are not together.
(b) The men are drinking ale.
(c) The women hold a superior position.
(d) The children and running around unsupervised.

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

5. What finally happens with Tessie?
(a) All the villagers stone her to death.
(b) She has to catch and throw back the stones.
(c) She has a heart attack and dies.
(d) She must dodge all the stones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does everyone get at this point?

2. What is on each of the children's papers?

3. What is in the black box?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about this year's lottery?

2. As Tessie continues to voice her objections, what does her husband do?

3. How are people dressed for this annual event?

4. Why is everything so organized in the village for the lottery?

5. Describe the men as they assemble for the lottery.

6. At what point in the story does Jackson raise the question of what's going on with her readers?

7. How does Jackson draw the reader into the spirit of the lottery?

8. What is Tessie doing as the rest of her family open their slips?

9. What is THE LOTTERY meant to satirize?

10. What happens as the stoning begins?

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