This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Short Stories > The Lottery – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Lottery Quiz 44 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Without end; constant A) Intermittent. B) Endless. C) Interminable. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interminable. 2. The ..... Ernesto brought to school got him sent to the principal. A) Interminably. B) Defiantly. C) Civic. D) Paraphernalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paraphernalia. 3. Discuss the symbolism of the stones in 'The Lottery'. A) The stones symbolize luck, prosperity, and happiness. B) The stones symbolize fear, isolation, and oppression. C) The stones symbolize tradition, violence, and the power of the community. D) The stones symbolize unity, love, and forgiveness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stones symbolize tradition, violence, and the power of the community. 4. "Be a good sport, Tessie." Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, "All of us took the same chance." "I think we better start over, " Mrs. Hutchinson said, as quietly as she could. "I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that." Tessie's change in attitude is an example of: A) Symbolism. B) Irony. C) Foreshadowing. D) Bad luck. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 5. True of False:Mrs Hutchinson (Tessie) won the lottery. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Old Man Warner functions as a symbol of A) Fear. B) Tradition. C) Time. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tradition. 7. How the text makes the reader feel (Ex. Peaceful, eerie, humorous, sad) A) Description. B) Mood. C) Analysis. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 8. "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets with stones, and the other boys soon followed his example ..... eventually, they had a great pile of stones in one corner of the square ..... " This passage is an example of what? A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Foreshadowing. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 9. Where is the box kept between lotteries? A) A special shelf had been constructed for the box in the back room of the town hall. B) Mr. Summers always kept the box in the attic of his house. C) The lottery box was kept under lock and key in the town's bank vault. D) It had no special place. One year it was at the post office, another the grocery store, another a barn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It had no special place. One year it was at the post office, another the grocery store, another a barn. 10. The winner of the lottery is ..... A) Old Man Dunbar. B) Janey Dunbar. C) Tessie Hutchinson. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tessie Hutchinson. 11. To do something delicately or in a refined manner A) Coarsely. B) Daintily. C) Instantaneously. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Daintily. 12. What is the name of the small town where the lottery takes place? A) Meadowville. B) Pleasantville. C) Rockwell. D) Summertown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pleasantville. 13. " ..... First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery, " he added petulantly. "Bad enough to see young Joe Summers up there joking with everybody."Someone who speaks petulantly is A) Grouchy. B) Relaxed. C) Sociable. D) Wicked. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grouchy. 14. Why does Tessie say she was late to arrive on the day of the lottery? A) She wanted to protest the lottery. B) She thought no one would notice. C) She was praying. D) She forgot what day it was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She forgot what day it was. 15. The lottery takes place during ..... A) Fall. B) Winter. C) Spring. D) Summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Summer. 16. Which word means "to do something disrespectfully or with an attitude?" A) Perfunctory. B) Petulantly. C) Disengaged. D) Interminably. E) Civic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petulantly. 17. "It's not the way it used to be, " Old Man Warner said clearly. "People ain't the way they used to be." He seems to believe that ..... A) People are more violent today. B) People don't change much. C) Traditions should change drastically. D) Past ways of living are best. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past ways of living are best. 18. Profusely means A) Deeply. B) Forcefully. C) Plentifully. D) Simply. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plentifully. 19. To be earlier in time A) Precede. B) Defiantly. C) Jovial. D) Gravely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Precede. 20. To collect (things) or gather (people) into one place or group A) Assembled. B) Conducted. C) Petulantly. D) Stoutly. 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