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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 revealing about the social order of the village?
(a) The men are drinking ale.
(b) The women hold a superior position.
(c) The children and running around unsupervised.
(d) The men and women are not together.

2. What is in the black box?
(a) Stones.
(b) Beans.
(c) Wood chips.
(d) Slips of paper.

3. When Mr. Summers says it is time, what does everyone do?
(a) Tear their papers into small pieces.
(b) Drop their papers in the box.
(c) Look at their papers and hold them up.
(d) Look at their papers and not show them.

4. What sound is heard as the papers are opened?
(a) The women speaking all at once.
(b) A collective sigh.
(c) The school marching band.
(d) Nothing. It is very quiet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some villages rumored to be doing with their lottery?

2. How long has the lottery been going on?

3. What are the women doing before the lottery?

4. What does Tessie try to do before Bill draws for the family?

5. Why can Clyde Dunbar not draw for his family?

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