"The Lottery" Quiz

How is the setting of the story described?

• a pleasant June morning in a small village

• a rainy day in the woods

• June 27, 1943

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What was represented by the black box?

• family
• death
• tradition
• murder

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.2

It says that the children were gathering stones into a pile. That is an example of what literary device?

• simile
• metaphor
• imagery
• foreshadowing

Who conducted the lottery?

• Mr. Hutchinson

• Mrs. Hutchinson

• Mr. Summers

• Tessie

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CCSS.RL.7.1

How long has the Lottery been around?

• 77 years

• 46 years

• This is the first year

• Over 100 years

Old Man Warner believes that the village should end the lottery.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.9

What is the theme of the story?

• Stone people to death to have a successful harvest.
• Blindly following tradition can be dangerous.
• Not everything is as it seems.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

How is winning this lottery ironic?

• The winner dies instead of gaining something favorable.

• Mr. Warner wants to continue the tradition.

• The village is made up of superstitious people.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Why is it disturbing that someone gave Davie Hutchinson several pebbles?

• He could have swallowed them and died.

• He was being invited to throw stones at his own mother.

• They stones were too heavy for him to carry.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Mr. Summers was a round faced, jovial man and he ran the coal business..."

Based on this sentence, what does jovial mean?

• angry

• tired

• lonely

• happy

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4