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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are some villages rumored to be doing with their lottery?
(a) Adding a consolation prize.
(b) Holding parades before the lottery.
(c) Discontinuing it.
(d) Combining it with another holiday.

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

4. What is Mrs. Hutchinson's behavior as she makes her way to her family?
(a) Laughing and apologizing for being late.
(b) Perplexed and confused.
(c) Somber and angry.
(d) Anxious and in a hurry.

5. Why are people gathering in the town square?
(a) There is a band concert that morning.
(b) It is the annual lottery day.
(c) The mayor is making a speech.
(d) They are voting whether to discontinue the lottery.

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

7. Who is the last person accounted for before the lottery begins?
(a) Mrs. Dunbar.
(b) Old man Warner.
(c) The tall Watson boy.
(d) Tessie Hutchinson.

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

9. 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.

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

11. Who is assigned to conduct the lottery?
(a) Mr. Graves.
(b) Mr. Martin.
(c) Mr. Hutchinson.
(d) Mr. Summers.

12. What does the village look like on the morning of the lottery?
(a) It is very metropolitan with shiny glass commercial buildings.
(b) It is gloomy and cold looking with gray houses.
(c) It is dusty and dry with the paint peeling off the houses.
(d) It is in the sun with neat houses, green lawns, and flowers everywhere.

13. What is Old man Warner's meaning when he says lottery in June, corn harvest soon?
(a) He sees the lottery as a way to fill time until the harvest.
(b) He judges time by the lottery.
(c) He thinks the lottery magically makes the harvest good.
(d) He thinks that June is too soon for the lottery.

14. What do some people think about discontinuing the lottery?
(a) Some people want to discontinue the lottery.
(b) Some people want to make the lottery grander.
(c) Some people want to change the date of the lottery.
(d) Some people want to hold the lottery twice a year.

15. What is on Tessie Hutchinson's paper?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A black spot.
(c) A message.
(d) The number 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is being used for the first time this year?

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

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

4. What is the traditional job of the village boys on Lottery Day?

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

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