The Lottery Quiz
Answer Key Below
Below you can find the answers to "The Lottery Quiz" -- just scroll down and find which ones you got wrong. Then you can explore the rest of the site.
- How many people lived in the village where the story took place?
- About 100
- 103
- About 200
- About 300
- 546
- What time of year did the story take place?
- Beginning of the summer
- End of winter
- Middle of autumn
- In between Spring and winter
- The author is describing the activities and states that the children are jsut geting out of school... and the date is June 27.
- Who was Mr. Summers?
- A banker
- A farmer
- A towns member who sold corn to the less fortunate
- A townsmember who was in charge of the balck box
- Who was Old Man Warner?
- A crazy old woman
- A group of when who called themselves Old Man Warner
- The oldest person in the village
- The meanest person in the village
- What objects were used to conduct the lottery?
- Paper slips, a black box, and stones/ pebbles
- Pens and paper
- Feathers, ink, and stones
- White and black paper
- In the first round of the lottery, who participated?
- Everyone
- Head of house(men)
- The wives
- The sons
- In the second round of the lottery, who participated?
- The wives
- The children
- The men
- The family chosen by vote
- The family given a black dotted paper
- None of these
- Who WON the lottery?
- The kids
- The adults
- Terri Hutchinson
- Mitchel Husketin
- What happened to the WINNER of the lottery?
- They got "stoned"
- Sillty Gacves shot them
- Huitm gave them $200
- They got free corn
- One example of how the ending of the story was forshadowed is:
- Mrs. Hutchinson wouldn't show her ticket
- Bill Graves yelled
- Boby Ray ran home crying
- Julie Anderson fell to the ground
- Bonus Question: I said the date before in the ONLY comment on the questinos. What was that date?
- June 27
- July 21
- Jan. 27
- June 21
