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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the men doing before it is time for the lottery to begin?
(a) Standing in a group but not talking.
(b) Standing together and talking politics.
(c) Standing together and talking about women.
(d) Standing in a group talking about tractors and rain.

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

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

4. What does Tessie's paper mean?
(a) She is out of the lottery.
(b) She has been chosen.
(c) She will have to draw again.
(d) She gets to select the winner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do they list the villagers before the lottery begins?

2. What do some people think about discontinuing the lottery?

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

4. What does Mr. Summers carry onto the village square?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As Mr. Summers turns to face the gathered villagers, what disturbance occurs?

2. What does Mr. Adams discuss with Old man Warner?

3. What does Tessie Hutchinson do when she realizes that Bill has the paper?

4. What is Old man Warner's response to Mr. Adams suggestion of doing away with the lottery?

5. Why is everything so organized in the village for the lottery?

6. How does Tessie try to widen the odds of her drawing the black dot?

7. Until she is knocked unconscious, what does Tessie keep trying to do?

8. Mostly the townspeople seem to look forward to the lottery. What comment is Jackson making on human nature at this point?

9. How does Jackson make the scene seem like a normal village fair?

10. How do the children react to their school holiday?

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