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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What are some villages rumored to be doing with their lottery?
(a) Discontinuing it.
(b) Holding parades before the lottery.
(c) Adding a consolation prize.
(d) Combining it with another holiday.
2. Why is everyone participating, even the Hutchinson children?
(a) Because they have nothing better to do.
(b) Because it is a village activity.
(c) Because they will be jailed if they do not.
(d) Because they are all hypnotized.
3. What is Old man Warner's meaning when he says lottery in June, corn harvest soon?
(a) He thinks the lottery magically makes the harvest good.
(b) He thinks that June is too soon for the lottery.
(c) He sees the lottery as a way to fill time until the harvest.
(d) He judges time by the lottery.
4. What does the lottery hint at?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Education.
(d) Recreation.
5. Why do they stop using the wood chips?
(a) The village population is growing.
(b) People get splinters form the wood.
(c) They want to be more modern.
(d) Trees are getting scarce.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to Tessie first?
2. What does Mr. Summers do as soon as he is sworn in?
3. What is Jackson's first element of surprise in the story?
4. What holiday is mentioned in the story that suggests this village is in America?
5. What is the irony of Tessie Hutchinson drawing the black dot?
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