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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 element of surprise does Jackson use in the story?
(a) Winning a lottery is usually a good thing and not something to dread.
(b) That the government steps in and stops the lottery.
(c) That the community does not know what the
(d) That Tessie sacrifices herself for her children.

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

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

4. What sound is heard as the papers are opened?
(a) The school marching band.
(b) A collective sigh.
(c) Nothing. It is very quiet.
(d) The women speaking all at once.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does everyone get at this point?

2. What is the age of majority in the village?

3. Who gets to go first in the second drawing?

4. Old man Warner suggests that discontinuing the lottery would be doing what?

5. Where is Tessie by the time everyone has their stones?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is called after Mrs. Dunbar, showing that no one is left out of the lottery?

2. Why is Mr. Summers always in charge of the lottery every year?

3. What happens after Mr. Zanini draw his paper?

4. In naming the holidays observed by the village, how does Jackson hint at the macabre nature of the lottery?

5. What does Mr. Graves do at the Hutchinson family drawing?

6. Are other lotteries still being held in other villages?

7. How does Tessie try to widen the odds of her drawing the black dot?

8. As Mr. Summers turns to face the gathered villagers, what disturbance occurs?

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

10. In place of the salute, what is required now of the lottery official?

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