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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Zanini's distinction at the lottery?
(a) He is the first one to draw in the lottery.
(b) He is the only single man there.
(c) He is the oldest man at the lottery.
(d) He is the last one to draw a slip from the black box.

2. Why can Clyde Dunbar not draw for his family?
(a) He is at home with a broken leg.
(b) He is on duty as fireman.
(c) He is in the military.
(d) He is in the hospital.

3. Why does the lottery begin late in this village?
(a) Because it took longer for the boys to find stones.
(b) Because they have trouble locating the lottery box.
(c) Because someone forgot to prepar the lottery slips of paper.
(d) Because there are so few people, the drawing only last a few hours.

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

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

6. Who is to draw for the Watson family?
(a) Mrs. Watson.
(b) Mr. Watson's brother.
(c) The tall Watson boy.
(d) Mr. Summers.

7. What is being used for the first time this year?
(a) A bigger stool.
(b) Black and white ping pong balls.
(c) A new black box.
(d) Slips of paper instead of wood chips.

8. What does the lottery hint at?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Recreation.
(d) Education.

9. What is stressed as important to the lottery all through the story?
(a) That everyone does not need to be present.
(b) That everyone knows how the tradition began.
(c) That family is the least important thing in the village.
(d) That it is a tradition that must be continued.

10. What type of story is THE LOTTERY?
(a) A comedy.
(b) A drama.
(c) A satire.
(d) A history.

11. What is the instruction given to the villagers about what to do after they have drawn?
(a) They are to look at their papers but not show anyone else.
(b) They are to register with Mr. Graves as having drawn.
(c) They are to show their papers to everyone.
(d) They are not to look at thier papers untill all have drawn.

12. How does Jackson suggest that tradition may be questioned?
(a) The village is getting smaller so tradition may die out.
(b) Some people oppose the lottery and some villages have already stopped it.
(c) Old man Warner compares it to the Stone Age.
(d) A lot about the lottery has been forgotten.

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

14. What is the age of majority in the village?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Sixteen.

15. What trouble does Bobby Martin get into?
(a) He does not respond to his mother's call and his father reprimands him.
(b) He puts the stones he collected in his pocket.
(c) He gets in a fight with another boy and has a bloody nose.
(d) He gets his clean clothes all dirty and has to go home and change.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jackson hint in the story when Tessie is very late arriving?

3. What serious formality occurs before the lottery begins?

4. How many people live in the village?

5. What are the women doing before the lottery?

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