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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) Over several generations.
(d) For the last five years.

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

3. In a large village, how long might the lottery last?
(a) Not long because of better equipment.
(b) All day because they have more activities in the square.
(c) As much as seven days.
(d) An hour because the slips were mailed to the people.

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

5. Why are the children running around that morning?
(a) The teachers are in the lottery so they come to see them.
(b) Lottery Day is a special holiday for children.
(c) It is Saturday and there is no school.
(d) Lottery Day is a school holiday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the black box?

2. Is Mr. Summers exempt from the lottery?

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

4. Though they do not remember all the ancient ritual, what do the villagers all remember?

5. In the story, what idea does Shirley Jackson carefully avoid?

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