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

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

3. What does the lottery hint at?
(a) Religion.
(b) Recreation.
(c) Politics.
(d) Education.

4. Who helps hold the box to keep it steady?
(a) Several of the larger boys.
(b) Mr. Martin and his son.
(c) Mr. Graves and Mr. Summers.
(d) The mayor and the chief of police.

5. Which man holds the winning paper?
(a) Bill Hutchinson.
(b) Old man Warner.
(c) Bob Martin.
(d) Mr. Graves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Summers carry onto the village square?

2. What is Jackson satirizing by having the children participate so willingly in the stoning?

3. What is Jackson's main theme in the story?

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

5. What is the tone as the story begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What request do Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves make of the villagers and who volunteers?

2. Who is the second citizen of the village and what is his function in the lottery?

3. According to the rules of the lottery, how long does the stoning go on?

4. What do the villagers begin to do at that point?

5. What does the setting of THE LOTTERY say about the citizens of the village.

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

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

8. After Mrs. Dunbar has spoken up, what does Mr. Summers ask about the Watsons?

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

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

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