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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the atmosphere of the village as the lottery gets under way?

2. What finally happens with Tessie?

3. Who is assigned to conduct the lottery?

4. Old man Warner suggests that discontinuing the lottery would be doing what?

5. What is Mrs. Hutchinson's behavior as she makes her way to her family?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tessie further disrupt the proceedings?

2. What formality occurs before the lottery is officially open?

3. What does Mrs. Delacroix do to participate in the stoning?

4. What are the heads of families instructed to do with their slips of paper?

5. Are other lotteries still being held in other villages?

6. Where are the women and what are they doing?

7. What happens after Mr. Zanini draw his paper?

8. Who is called after Mrs. Dunbar, showing that no one is left out of the lottery?

9. This time, who comes forward to draw slips of paper from the box?

10. How is the black spot finally revealed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Expand on the character of Mr. Summers in THE LOTTERY. Describe how you imagine his business dealings in detail and his political control over the village.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper in which you are one of the villagers at the lottery. Describe your feelings as the lottery takes place. How do you feel when it is not you but Bill Hutchinson who draws the black spot? Carry this on through picking up a rock and throwing it at Tessie.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper about how children might be affected by the violence of the lottery. What will Davie Hutchinson be like when he is a teenager?

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