This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Short Stories > The Lottery – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Lottery Quiz 24 (43 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which story is the character Prim from? A) The Lottery. B) The Hunger Games. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Hunger Games. 2. Is lottery practiced in other cities? A) No, it's a tradition that is only practiced in this village. B) Yes, it is a popular form of celebration. C) Yes, but others plan to give it up. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yes, but others plan to give it up. 3. Needed to complete something A) Necessary. B) Gravely. C) Perfect. D) Imaginary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Necessary. 4. Who shows up late to the lottery? A) Mr. Summers. B) Bill Hutchinson. C) Old Man Warner. D) Tessie Hutchinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tessie Hutchinson. 5. The line at the DMV felt interminable as I waited for hours. What does the word 'interminable' mean? A) Happy and cheerful. B) However. C) To come before or go in front of. D) Never-ending. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Never-ending. 6. Which member of the family "wins" the lottery? A) The mother. B) The daughter. C) The father. D) The son. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mother. 7. How does the mood take a wild ride from the start to the finish of "The Lottery" ? A) It flips from a gloomy, dark vibe to a burst of sunshine and rainbows. B) It takes a turn from goofy to gloomy. C) It starts off sunny and carefree, then plunges into a stormy nightmare. D) The mood? Oh, it stays the same, steady as a rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It starts off sunny and carefree, then plunges into a stormy nightmare. 8. One example of irony in the story is A) The panic that sets in at the end of the story. B) The harvest is due soon. C) Winning the Lottery means dying. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Winning the Lottery means dying. 9. The Lottery was written in this year A) We don't know for sure as the story doesn't say. B) 1948. C) 1952. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1948. 10. On what material are family names placed in the black box? A) Pieces of cloth. B) Sheets of paper. C) Chips of wood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sheets of paper. 11. When Old Man Warner hears about other villages discounting the lottery he feels ..... A) Angry that people are trying to change tradition. B) Indifferent to the situation. C) Relieved that it will be over. D) Happy that no one will be hurt again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Angry that people are trying to change tradition. 12. "The whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner" (paragraph 1). A) Not Foreshadowing. B) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not Foreshadowing. 13. If someone is unable to attend the lottery due to illness, they are excused from participating. (a) A) To False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To False. 14. What is the definition of 'petulantly'? A) Viewing. B) Punishment, repercussions. C) Delicately, in a lady-like fashion. D) With unreasonable irritation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With unreasonable irritation. 15. An imaginary society in which there is great suffering and injustice A) Liberty. B) Imaginary. C) Quit. D) Dystopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dystopia. 16. Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection A) Perfunctory. B) Defiantly. C) Disengaged. D) Profusely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfunctory. 17. The child threw her toy and began to whine in an annoying and ..... manner. A) Dainty. B) Petulant. C) Implicit. D) Perfunctory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petulant. 18. What was different about Tessie's paper? A) It was blank. B) It was ripped. C) It had a heavy pencil mark on it. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It had a heavy pencil mark on it. 19. Who draws for the lottery? A) The oldest. B) The head of the house. C) The man of the house. D) The parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The man of the house. 20. What did the people do to Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson? A) Congratulated her for her winning. B) Killed by firing squad. C) Stoned to death. D) Hung in front of the village people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stoned to death. 21. What stones were the most prized for use in the lottery A) Heavy, flat ones. B) Hard, jagged ones. C) Pebbles. D) Smooth, round ones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Smooth, round ones. 22. Who said that:''Some of you fellows want to give me a hand?" A) Mr. Martin. B) Mr. Summers. C) Old man Warner. D) Mrs. Summers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr. Summers. 23. The official said, " ..... " A) Bring the door to my office. B) Take a picture of the ticket. C) You don't have the winning ticket. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bring the door to my office. 24. "I think you'd better find his rosebush, " the nurse said crisply. What does the nurse's dialogue and tone reveal? A) She is angry and speaks crisply because she just ate bacon. B) She is frustrated and speaks crisply to put her foot down. C) She is insistent and speaks crisply to ensure the janitor listens. D) The dialogue reveals nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She is insistent and speaks crisply to ensure the janitor listens. 25. The children gathering rocks at the beginning of the story is an example of? A) Unreliable narrator. B) Foreshadowing. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 26. Andy and Simon worked at a ..... A) Warehouse. B) Casino. C) Locker room. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Warehouse. 27. You see someone drop their wallet. Which of these options would be the ETHICAL decision? A) Taking the money out and giving the wallet back. B) Keeping the wallet. C) Throwing the wallet in a lake after stealing the money. D) Giving the wallet back. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Giving the wallet back. 28. At what moment in the overall plot of a story does the conflict of the story reach a turning point? A) Climax. B) Falling Action. C) Exposition. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climax. 29. Tucker, Oliver, and Callen are participating in a school play. Tucker is performing a scene that represents a phrase meaning 'done routinely without much thought or effort'. What phrase is Tucker performing? A) Perfunctory. B) Systematically. C) Deliberate. D) Conscious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfunctory. 30. The flowers were blossoming PROFUSELY and the grass was richly green. A) Dying or sickly. B) In large amounts. C) Loudly or nosily. D) Brightly or shiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In large amounts. 31. In Old Man Warner's mind, discontinuing the lottery would be ..... A) A step backward to primitive life. B) The result of the foolishness of Mr. Summers. C) A dangerous step into the future. D) The beginning of communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A step backward to primitive life. 32. What was the saying about the lottery in June according to Old Man Warner? A) Lottery in June, sun be shining soon. B) Lottery in June, wind be strong soon. C) Lottery in June, rain be plenty soon. D) Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon. 33. He was a round-faced, JOVIAL man whom people immediately liked. A) Cheerful and Friendly. B) Rude and Crude. C) Smart & knowledgeable. D) Forgetful & irresponsible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cheerful and Friendly. 34. In the beginning of the story, this foreshadows what is about to happen. A) Tessie says, "It's not fair!". B) Children were gathering stones. C) Tessie was excited for the lottery and joked she almost forgot what day it was. D) The day was sunny and people were laughing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Children were gathering stones. 35. What is the "lottery" for? A) To choose who should be kicked out of the village. B) To choose one person to be the next leader of the village. C) To choose one person to receive a large sum of money. D) To choose one person to be killed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To choose one person to be killed. 36. I need to have ..... twelve oranges for dinner. A) Daintily. B) Precisely. C) Defiantly. D) Quietly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Precisely. 37. This word means "a hopeless sense that something is so bad, that it's impossible to deal with; a great need or desire for something" A) Hesitate. B) Desperate. C) They hesitate. D) Jovial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desperate. 38. Which of the following is not a reason that the town continues the lottery each year? A) They genuinely enjoy it. B) Mob mentality. C) To have a good harvest. D) Tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They genuinely enjoy it. 39. Who conducts the lottery in the town? A) Mr. Summers. B) Mr. Graves. C) Mrs. Delacroix. D) Mr. Hutchinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mr. Summers. 40. The word "force" means A) To use power to move something. B) Relating to the whole of something rather than part of it. C) To come before something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To use power to move something. 41. Divided by something A) Apart. B) Raise. C) Conform. D) Civic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apart. 42. Which was your favorite story? A) The Lottery. B) The Hunger Games. C) I don't like dystopian literature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Lottery. 43. How would you properly use hesitate (to doubt) and jovial (to be cheerful) in a sentence free from an oxymorons? A) Zameena's sad and jovial. So I confidently hesitated to speak to her. B) I hesitated to talk to Zameena becuase she's very jovial whereas I'm shy. C) To hesitate is the jovial way of conduct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I hesitated to talk to Zameena becuase she's very jovial whereas I'm shy. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe Lottery Quiz 1The Lottery Quiz 2The Lottery Quiz 3The Lottery Quiz 4The Lottery Quiz 5The Lottery Quiz 6The Lottery Quiz 7The Lottery Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books