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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jackson's main theme in the story?
(a) The stupidity of blindly following tradition.
(b) The value of human life.
(c) The need for change in a community.
(d) The need for tradition in small towns.

2. Which stones are the most prized for use in the lottery?
(a) Smooth, round ones.
(b) Hard, jagged ones.
(c) Heavy, flat ones.
(d) Shiny, decorative ones.

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

4. Why do they stop using the wood chips?
(a) Trees are getting scarce.
(b) They want to be more modern.
(c) People get splinters form the wood.
(d) The village population is growing.

5. Why is everyone participating, even the Hutchinson children?
(a) Because they are all hypnotized.
(b) Because they will be jailed if they do not.
(c) Because they have nothing better to do.
(d) Because it is a village activity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the instruction given to the villagers about what to do after they have drawn?

3. What does the lottery hint at?

4. What is stressed as important to the lottery all through the story?

5. What is Jackson saying about tradition.

(see the answer key)

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