"The Lottery" Pt 1

The *best* description of the setting of the story, The Lottery, is

• small town, fall/autumn, school yard

• Summer, village, sunny

• a small, nondescript town located in rural America on the morning of June 27th. Jackson describes the weather on the day as being pleasant, clear, and warm, which gives the reader a sense of peace.

• Bobby Martin, Mr. Summers, children, villagers

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The village is home to about __________ people.

• 100

• 300

• 1,000

• 760

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The boys, Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix (pronounced Dellacroy) were collecting:

• books

• feathers

• stones

• lottery tickets

"He was round faced, jovial man and he rain the coal business, and people were sorry for him because he had no children and his wife was a scold..." this is a description of a main character from The Lottery:

• Mr. Martin

• Mr. Summers

• Mr. Grinch

• Mr. Peters

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The word ritual means:

"Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded..."

• relaxed and unconcerned

• of two or more objects or events not existing or happening at the same time

• a religious ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a specific order.

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Mood is the way you FEEL after reading something. Based on the first paragraph of The Lottery, What is the correct mood for the beginning of The Lottery?

• peaceful, happy.

• angry, resentful.

• annoyed, irritated.

• tense, excited.

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In the story, the lottery is put in the same category as "the square dances, the teenage club, the Halloween program" and other "civic activities" (lines 38-40).

Based on these ideas, how do you expect the winner of the lottery to feel?

• happy, excited, comfortable

• scared, afraid, uncomfortable

• curious, mysterious, unsure

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The lottery takes place every

• June 27 around 10am for 2 hours

• March 19 around 8am for 5 hours

• May 16 around 7am for 10 hours

"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?

• Tradition - they feel it is necessary because it has always been a part of their community.

• The young are dumb; nobody should ever listen to a young person.

• Cavemen had it easier than we do.

At paragraph 19, there is a notable shift in mood (the way we feel when reading something) this can best be explained in the word choices popping up, words and phrases like: nervously, sudden hush, quiet ,not looking around... these words instill a mood of:

• fear / uncertainty / anxious

• happiness / contentment

• despair, depression, dread

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