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

2. What type of story is THE LOTTERY?
(a) A history.
(b) A comedy.
(c) A satire.
(d) A drama.

3. What is Mrs. Hutchinson's behavior as she makes her way to her family?
(a) Anxious and in a hurry.
(b) Somber and angry.
(c) Perplexed and confused.
(d) Laughing and apologizing for being late.

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

5. What is Jackson satirizing by having the children participate so willingly in the stoning?
(a) Parents who let their children run their lives.
(b) Hansel and Gretle.
(c) Bringing children up with adults' biases.
(d) Well behaved children.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the lottery held each year?

2. What are some villages rumored to be doing with their lottery?

3. What is in the black box?

4. Is Mr. Summers exempt from the lottery?

5. What is happening when they make any change in the lottery procedure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is THE LOTTERY meant to satirize?

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

3. Why is the lottery held later in the morning in this particular village?

4. What does Mr. Summers do when he calls out his own name?

5. Have there ever been deviations from tradition in the past? What are they?

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

7. What happens next after it is settled that Bill Hutchinson holds the paper with the black dot?

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

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

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

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