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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the lottery held each year?
(a) During the full moon.
(b) Before the corn harvest.
(c) At Thanksgiving.
(d) At the beginning of spring.

2. What does Tessie try to do before Bill draws for the family?
(a) Find her three children to stand with their father.
(b) Include her daughter's family in the drawing.
(c) Stand where the newspaper photographer can get her photo.
(d) Run home to change clothes.

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

4. What does Tessie do with her paper?
(a) She runs around showing it to all the women.
(b) She looks at it and is dissapointed that hers is not the one.
(c) She holds it behind her back.
(d) She puts it in her purse.

5. Why does his oldest son not draw for him?
(a) He rus away when the lottery begins.
(b) He is too small to reach inside the box.
(c) His mother is next in line for the family.
(d) The boy is not yet sixteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trouble does Bobby Martin get into?

2. How do they assemble when it is time to begin the ceremony?

3. What is on each of the children's papers?

4. Who helps hold the box to keep it steady?

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

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