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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has the lottery been going on?
(a) Since the Pilgrims.
(b) Since before people arrived from Europe.
(c) For the last five years.
(d) Over several generations.

2. What does Mrs. Delacroix have in her hands?
(a) A chocolate cake.
(b) The lottery flag.
(c) A huge stone.
(d) The Hutchinson baby.

3. What is the tone as the story begins?
(a) Cheerful, bright, and colorful.
(b) An average day with overcast sky.
(c) Dry like a newspaper article.
(d) Dreary and ominous.

4. What is Old man Warner's meaning when he says lottery in June, corn harvest soon?
(a) He thinks that June is too soon for the lottery.
(b) He judges time by the lottery.
(c) He sees the lottery as a way to fill time until the harvest.
(d) He thinks the lottery magically makes the harvest good.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jackson suggest that tradition may be questioned?

2. What is Mrs. Hutchinson's behavior as she makes her way to her family?

3. What is the date of the lottery?

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

5. What is revealing about the social order of the village?

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