This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Short Stories > The Lottery – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Lottery Quiz 38 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is it about? A) Horses. B) Afro-Man. C) The Black Box. D) Cars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Black Box. 2. What does Mr. Summers organize besides the lottery? A) The village market. B) Square dances, the teen club, and the Halloween program. C) The annual village fair. D) The village council meetings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Square dances, the teen club, and the Halloween program. 3. What happens when Robin tries to feed some animals by himself? A) His is attacked. B) He gets scared. C) He gets lost. D) He falls down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His is attacked. 4. Which statement best expresses a theme in this text? A) If you don't play, you can't win. B) Money doesn't buy happiness. C) Always ask for more than you need. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Money doesn't buy happiness. 5. When Old Man Warner hears that some places have dropped the lottery, he ..... A) Feels a flicker of hope but remains silent. B) Is so stunned that he leaves the village. C) Expresses strong disapproval. D) Agrees with the other villages and petitions to end the lottery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expresses strong disapproval. 6. Duly A) In a proper way. B) Detached. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a proper way. 7. What is the motif in 'The Lottery'? A) The black box. B) The stones. C) The lottery tradition. D) The village square. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The black box. 8. The period of time in which a group of people are born or live A) Generation. B) Reach. C) Liberty. D) Imaginary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generation. 9. How do the townspeople view the black box? A) They are afraid of it. B) They want to get rid of it. C) They see it as part of the tradition. D) They are disinterested in it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They see it as part of the tradition. 10. The black box is also a metaphor for A) A coffin. B) Freedom. C) Power. D) Sin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A coffin. 11. To tantalize someone means to A) Torment or tease them. B) Play nicely with them. C) Give them all the money they deserve. D) Be a good friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Torment or tease them. 12. What is the plot of the book? A) Peter Griffin. B) The lottery for the black box. C) Tessies lottery number. D) Lottery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The lottery for the black box. 13. Who is selected as the "winner" of the lottery in the story? A) Mr. Summers. B) Tessie Hutchinson. C) Old Man Warner. D) Bill Hutchinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tessie Hutchinson. 14. Mrs Hutchinson (Tessie) was late for the lottery gathering because: A) She would rather do her chores. B) She forgot it was lottery day. C) She was collecting stones. D) She was helping a man stack wood. . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She forgot it was lottery day. 15. What event foreshadows what will happen at the end of the story? A) Names are drawn from a black box. B) The boys gather stones. C) Clyde Dunbar can't attend because of his broken leg. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The boys gather stones. 16. What word is defined as:noisily turbulent; rowdy A) Perfunctory. B) Interminable. C) Civic. D) Boisterous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boisterous. 17. What is Old Man Warner's reason for keeping the lottery? A) The tradition of the Lottery. B) The Box is special to him. C) His parents invented it. D) He wants to die. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The tradition of the Lottery. 18. Very noisy and active in a lively way A) Boisterous. B) Petulant. C) Ritual. D) Chant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boisterous. 19. The characters tell us ..... A) When and where a story takes place. B) Who is in the story. C) What the sequence of events are in the story. D) Why we are reading the story (the overall message.). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Who is in the story. 20. Old Man Warner has been in the lottery ..... times. A) 87. B) 97. C) 77. D) 67. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 77. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesThe Lottery Quiz 1The Lottery Quiz 2The Lottery Quiz 3The Lottery Quiz 4The Lottery Quiz 5The Lottery Quiz 6The Lottery Quiz 7The Lottery Quiz 8The Lottery Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books