The Lottery

The Lottery

8th Grade

11 Qs

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The Lottery

The Lottery

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English

8th Grade

Practice Problem

Medium

CCSS
RL.2.10, RL.8.3, L.9-10.5

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the beginning of the story, this foreshadows what is about to happen.

Tessie says, “It’s not fair!”
Children were gathering stones
Tessie was excited for the lottery and joked she almost forgot what day it was
The day was sunny and people were laughing

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them…"
This is an example of what kind of figurative language:

Idiom
Alliteration
Personification
Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Be a good sport, Tessie." Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, "All of us took the same chance." "I think we better start over," Mrs. Hutchinson said, as quietly as she could. "I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that."
Tessie’s change in attitude is an example of:

Symbolism
Irony
Foreshadowing
Bad luck

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The winner of the lottery was stoned to death.
This is an example of:

Symbolism
Irony
Foreshadowing
Bad luck

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The black box symbolizes:

A way to control the growth of the population
Death
Winning isn’t always a good thing
Following traditions without questioning them

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Mrs. Delacroix chooses a stone so large that she needs two hands to pick it up. She is nice to Tessie in the beginning and quick to throw her stone at the end. Her last name ironically means:

of the cross
of death
watch your back
she who throws stones

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying, " Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon... There's always been a lottery." What does the speaker symbolize?

Death
Justice
Mob Mentality
Tradition

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