The Lottery

What symbolizes the winner in the lottery?

• A piece of paper with black dot

• A blank piece of paper

• a wood chip with a mark of death

• a wooden ball with an embedded skull

Paraphernalia

• a ceremonial act; a customary procedure

• punishment

• hesitantly or unwillingly

• personal belongings; equipment associated with a particular activity

Who was the elder who had his seventy-seventh time participating in the lottery?

• Old Man Dave

• Old Man Dunbar

• Old Man Bill

• Old Man Warner

Internal Conflict

• A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character

• A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader

• A contrast between expectation and reality

• Central idea of a work of literature

On what day does the lottery take place?

• January 25
• July 27
• September 4
• June 27

What is Old Man Warner's reason for keeping the lottery?

• The tradition of the Lottery.

• The Box is special to him.

• His parents invented it.

• He wants to die.

How do the townspeople view the lottery box?

• They are afraid of it.

• They all want to get rid of it.

• They see it as part of a tradition.

• They are disinterested in the box.

Setting

• A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character

• the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

• Time and place of an event

• Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

Who wrote "The Lottery"?

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Chinua Achebe

• Shirley Jackson

• Michael Jackson

Whose family was first drawn from the draw lots?

• Delacroix Family

• Jones Family

• Watson Family

• Hutchinson Family