"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson - Reading Check

What is the condition of the black box?

• It's shiny and new because they build a new one every year

• Worn, with chipped off paint.

• It's indescribable, according to the narrator

• The purple paint is royal looking

The ​ (a)   used to identify the "winner" of the lottery are marked with ​ (b)  

• slips of paper
• wooden chips
• lottery tickets
• a black dot.
• blue dots
• pieces of corn

Mr. Adams tells Old Man Warner that over in the next village

• they have a new black box

• that they do the lottery twice a year

• there's talk of giving up the lottery

• they have stopped doing the lottery because it is immoral

Mrs. Hutchinson's ​ (a)   precedes her ​ (b)  

• tardiness
• early arrival
• death
• son's death
• vindication
• convincing arguments

Based on what Old Man Warner says, the lottery continues because it is

• a harbinger of a good corn crop

• good old-fashioned fun!

• vital to the conformity of the citizens

• population control