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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. 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.

2. How do they list the villagers before the lottery begins?
(a) From the oldest to the youngest.
(b) By heads of families.
(c) In alphabetical order.
(d) From the youngest to the oldest.

3. What is on each of the children's papers?
(a) Nothing. They are blank.
(b) Gift certificates.
(c) Colored pictures.
(d) A secret message.

4. Old man Warner suggests that discontinuing the lottery would be doing what?
(a) Shaming the ancestors.
(b) Going back to the Stone Age.
(c) Taking the life out of the village.
(d) Inviting strangers into the village.

5. What is the instruction given to the villagers about what to do after they have drawn?
(a) They are not to look at thier papers untill all have drawn.
(b) They are to look at their papers but not show anyone else.
(c) They are to register with Mr. Graves as having drawn.
(d) They are to show their papers to everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Zanini's distinction at the lottery?

2. What are the women doing before the lottery?

3. How many slips do the Hutchinson's take out of the box?

4. Where does Mrs. Hutchinson locate her husband and children?

5. Why do they stop using the wood chips?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Mostly the townspeople seem to look forward to the lottery. What comment is Jackson making on human nature at this point?

4. Why have they made the switch to paper slips this year?

5. How does the Martin family make the scene appear like a gathering of everyday families?

6. What are some other town functions that Mr. Summers presides over?

7. Where are the women and what are they doing?

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

9. Whose name was the first to be called up for the lottery?

10. How are people dressed for this annual event?

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