The Lottery - Quiz
The Lottery
  • 1. Who wrote the essay "'The Lottery': Symbolic Tour de Force"?
A) Fritz Oehlschlaeger
B) Patrick J. Shields
C) Helen E. Nebeker
D) Bernice Murphy
  • 2. In which publication did Helen E. Nebeker's essay appear?
A) American Literature
B) Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy
C) Essays in Literature
D) The Simpsons
  • 3. In what month and year was Helen E. Nebeker's essay published?
A) March 1974
B) December 1992
C) March 1988
D) December 2004
  • 4. What does Helen E. Nebeker's essay claim about every major name in the story?
A) It has a special significance.
B) It was chosen by the publisher.
C) It is entirely random.
D) It is based on real villagers.
  • 5. According to the text, what has Jackson carefully indicated by the end of the first two paragraphs?
A) The financial status of each family
B) The exact location and the year of the event
C) The political affiliations of the villagers
D) The season, time of ancient excess and sacrifice, and the stones
  • 6. What are described as the most ancient of sacrificial weapons in the text?
A) The stones
B) The black box
C) The lots
D) The wooden chips
  • 7. From what language does Bobby's surname "Martin" derive?
A) Latin
B) Middle English
C) Old French
D) Ancient Greek
  • 8. What does the surname "Martin" signify?
A) Ape or monkey
B) Cross or sacrifice
C) Ultimate refuge or escape
D) Progenitor or martyr
  • 9. Whose commonness is juxtaposed with Bobby Martin's surname?
A) Mr. Adams
B) Harry Jones
C) Mrs. Graves
D) Dickie Delacroix
  • 10. What does "Delacroix" translate to?
A) Hairy Ape
B) Grave Refuge
C) Of-the-Cross
D) First Man
  • 11. How is "Delacroix" vulgarized by the villagers?
A) Dellacross
B) Delacroy
C) Dellacroy
D) Crossdel
  • 12. Who selects a stone so large she has to pick it up with both hands at the end of the story?
A) Mrs. Delacroix
B) Mrs. Graves
C) Helen Nebeker
D) Tessie Hutchinson
  • 13. Who stands in the forefront of the crowd as progenitor and martyr in the Judeo-Christian myth of man?
A) Mr. Adams
B) Bobby Martin
C) Dickie Delacroix
D) Harry Jones
  • 14. Who stands beside Mr. Adams representing the ultimate refuge or escape of all mankind?
A) Mrs. Graves
B) Anne Hutchinson
C) Tessie Hutchinson
D) Mrs. Delacroix
  • 15. Who wrote "The Stoning of Mistress Hutchinson: Meaning and Context in 'The Lottery'"?
A) Bernice Murphy
B) Helen E. Nebeker
C) Patrick J. Shields
D) Fritz Oehlschlaeger
  • 16. In which journal was Fritz Oehlschlaeger's essay published in 1988?
A) American Literature
B) Modern Fiction Studies
C) Essays in Literature
D) The Literary Legacy
  • 17. To historical figure does Jackson's name choice for the victim link her?
A) Anne Hutchinson
B) Sarah Good
C) Elizabeth Proctor
D) Mary Dyer
  • 18. What religious beliefs were found to be heretical by the Puritan hierarchy in Anne Hutchinson's case?
A) Quaker
B) Calvinist
C) Antinomian
D) Baptist
  • 19. In what year was Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts?
A) 1692
B) 1776
C) 1638
D) 1620
  • 20. Who is the protagonist of "The Lottery"?
A) Mrs. Graves
B) Tessie Hutchinson
C) Bobby Martin
D) Mrs. Delacroix
  • 21. What did Tessie Hutchinson question besides her humble status as a wife?
A) The existence of the black box
B) The necessity of the military draft
C) The tradition and correctness of the lottery
D) The religious beliefs of Mr. Adams
  • 22. To which Biblical story has "The Lottery" been compared?
A) David and Goliath
B) Jonah and the Whale
C) Achan, Joshua 7
D) The Binding of Isaac
  • 23. What is the order of drawing in both "The Lottery" and the Biblical story of Achan?
A) Family heads, then individuals
B) Children, then adults
C) Individuals, then family heads
D) Women, then men
  • 24. Who wrote "Arbitrary Condemnation and Sanctioned Violence in Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'"?
A) Helen E. Nebeker
B) Bernice Murphy
C) Fritz Oehlschlaeger
D) Patrick J. Shields
  • 25. In what month and year was Patrick J. Shields's essay published?
A) March 1974
B) December 1992
C) December 2004
D) March 1988
  • 26. According to Mrs. Adams in the text, what have some places already done?
A) Quit the lotteries
B) Banned capital punishment
C) Replaced stones with paper
D) Abolished the military draft
  • 27. What do some people equate the abolition of capital punishment with?
A) Enhancing community safety
B) Undermining law and morality
C) Strengthening religious traditions
D) Promoting absolute freedom
  • 28. What is actually being undermined by the arbitrary practice of capital punishment, according to the text?
A) Economic stability
B) Military readiness
C) Religious orthodoxy
D) Law and morality
  • 29. Who wrote the 2005 book Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy?
A) Bernice Murphy
B) Patrick J. Shields
C) Helen E. Nebeker
D) Fritz Oehlschlaeger
  • 30. In which TV show episode from 1992 was "The Lottery" referenced?
A) South Park
B) Family Guy
C) Futurama
D) The Simpsons episode "Dog of Death"
  • 31. Which character in "The Simpsons" reports that state lottery players borrowed copies of "The Lottery"?
A) Homer Simpson
B) Kent Brockman
C) Ned Flanders
D) Chief Wiggum
E) Moe Szyslak
  • 32. What did excited state lottery players expect to find in Shirley Jackson's book?
A) Mathematical formulas for luck
B) Rules for playing the lottery
C) A history of gambling
D) Strategies to win the jackpot
  • 33. How does Kent Brockman describe "The Lottery"?
A) A helpful guide for winning money
B) A chilling tale of conformity gone mad
C) A critique of the military draft
D) A historical account of Puritan trials
  • 34. What does protagonist Homer Simpson do after Kent Brockman clarifies what the book is about?
A) Write a letter to the library
B) Discard his own copy of the book
C) Buy more copies for his family
D) Read the book cover to cover
  • 35. According to Bernice Murphy, what does the Springfield citizenry's misunderstanding of the story indicate?
A) A clever satire of modern television
B) A general misrepresentation of Jackson and her work
C) A deep appreciation for classic literature
D) An accurate understanding of capital punishment
  • 36. Approximately how many years after its initial creation was "The Lottery" mentioned in "The Simpsons"?
A) 100 years
B) More than 50 years
C) Exactly 10 years
D) 25 years
  • 37. To what real-world system have others compared the lottery besides capital punishment?
A) The tax collection agency
B) The public school enrollment
C) The judicial jury selection
D) The military draft
  • 38. Under the Selective Service System, what was the age range of young men selected at random for military service?
A) 18–25
B) 21–35
C) 20–30
D) 16–21
  • 39. How many years after the end of World War II was "The Lottery" written?
A) Ten years
B) Exactly five years
C) Just three years
D) Just one year
  • 40. How many American men were drafted during World War II, according to the text?
A) Ten million
B) One million
C) Fifty million
D) Four hundred thousand
  • 41. How many American men died in World War II according to the context provided?
A) Over 1 million
B) Over 10 million
C) Over 400,000
D) Over 10,000
  • 42. What act was enacted just two days before "The Lottery" was published?
A) The Capital Punishment Abolition Act
B) The Military Selective Service Act
C) The Antinomian Heresy Act
D) The Puritan Hierarchy Act
  • 43. Which magazine published 'The Lottery'?
A) The San Francisco Chronicle
B) Come Along with Me
C) The Vermont Review
D) The New Yorker
  • 44. Where did Shirley Jackson respond to readers a month after publication?
A) San Francisco Chronicle
B) North Bennington Gazette
C) Come Along with Me
D) The New Yorker
  • 45. When did Shirley Jackson publish her response in the San Francisco Chronicle?
A) June 15, 1948
B) August 12, 1948
C) July 22, 1960
D) July 22, 1948
  • 46. Where did Shirley Jackson live when she wrote the story?
A) New York City, New York
B) San Francisco, California
C) North Bennington, Vermont
D) Boston, Massachusetts
  • 47. In what year was Jackson's lecture printed in the collection Come Along with Me?
A) 1968
B) 1948
C) 1972
D) 1960
  • 48. Out of roughly three hundred letters received that summer, how many spoke kindly?
A) Three
B) Fifty
C) Thirty
D) Thirteen
  • 49. Who mostly wrote the thirteen kind letters Jackson received that summer?
A) Critics
B) Editors
C) Friends
D) Family members
  • 50. Who was the editor of The New Yorker mentioned in the text?
A) Bennington
B) Harold Ross
C) Come Along
D) San Francisco
  • 51. Which of the following was a completely mystifying transformation of the story mentioned?
A) Made into a ballet
B) Made into a musical
C) Made into a children's book
D) Made into a silent film
  • 52. What did readers largely confine their questions to in later years?
A) What does this story mean?
B) Why the mother hated the story
C) Whether they could watch a lottery
D) Where these lotteries were held
  • 53. What was the general tone of the early letters sent to Jackson?
A) Wide-eyed, shocked innocence
B) Humorous and lighthearted
C) Hostile and threatening
D) Literary and analytical
  • 54. Did The New Yorker keep records of phone calls regarding the story?
A) No
B) Only for a month
C) Yes
D) Only for international calls
  • 55. What approximate population does the unnamed village have?
A) About 1,000 residents
B) About 100 residents
C) About 300 residents
D) About 50 residents
  • 56. On what date does the lottery take place in the story?
A) July 1
B) June 26
C) June 27
D) May 30
  • 57. Who quotes the proverb 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon'?
A) Old Man Warner
B) Mr. Graves
C) Bill Hutchinson
D) Mr. Summers
  • 58. Which network broadcasted the radio adaptation of 'The Lottery' on March 14, 1951?
A) ABC
B) NBC
C) CBS
D) PBS
  • 59. Who wrote the 1951 radio adaptation of 'The Lottery'?
A) Anthony Spinner
B) Ellen M. Violett
C) Shirley Jackson
D) Ernest Kinoy
  • 60. How many of the Hutchinsons' three children were deleted by writer Ernest Kinoy for the radio version?
A) Three
B) One
C) None
D) Two
  • 61. What is the profession of John Gunderson, a character added by Ernest Kinoy to the radio version?
A) Store owner
B) Schoolteacher
C) Police officer
D) Mayor
  • 62. Who directed the 1951 NBC radio production of 'The Lottery'?
A) Andrew C. Love
B) Miles Hyman
C) Anthony Spinner
D) Larry Yust
  • 63. Who wrote the first television adaptation of 'The Lottery' for Cameo Theatre?
A) Ernest Kinoy
B) James Durbin
C) Ellen M. Violett
D) Shirley Jackson
  • 64. On which television program was the first TV adaptation of 'The Lottery' seen?
A) NBC Presents: Short Story
B) Cameo Theatre
C) The Twilight Zone
D) Short Story Showcase
  • 65. What was the segment title in the Regular Show parody of 'The Lottery'?
A) The Town Square
B) The Hole
C) The Lottery Returns
D) Short Story Showcase
  • 66. Who directed the 1969 short film adaptation of 'The Lottery'?
A) Larry Yust
B) Anthony Spinner
C) Miles Hyman
D) Andrew C. Love
  • 67. Who provided the ten-minute commentary film accompanying Larry Yust's 1969 adaptation?
A) Ed Begley Jr.
B) Ernest Kinoy
C) Larry Yust
D) James Durbin
  • 68. Which actor made their third film appearance in Larry Yust's 1969 adaptation?
A) William Fawcett
B) Jim Bowles
C) Olive Dunbar
D) Ed Begley Jr.
  • 69. Who wrote the 1996 feature-length TV film adaptation of 'The Lottery'?
A) Ellen M. Violett
B) Ernest Kinoy
C) Anthony Spinner
D) Miles Hyman
  • 70. When did Anthony Spinner's feature-length TV film premiere?
A) October 31, 2014
B) January 1, 2016
C) September 29, 1996
D) March 14, 1951
  • 71. What award was Anthony Spinner's 1996 TV film nominated for?
A) An Emmy Award for Best Directing
B) An Academy Award for Best Short Film
C) A Saturn Award for Best Graphic Novel
D) A 1997 Saturn Award for Best Single Genre Television Presentation
  • 72. Who created the 2016 graphic novel adaptation titled Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery': The Authorized Graphic Adaptation?
A) James Durbin
B) Anthony Spinner
C) Larry Yust
D) Miles Hyman
  • 73. What relation is Miles Hyman to Shirley Jackson?
A) Son
B) Nephew
C) Grandson
D) Brother
  • 74. Who wrote the review for the Houston Chronicle about Miles Hyman's graphic novel?
A) Irene Tedrow
B) Alyson Ward
C) Olive Dunbar
D) Ellen M. Violett
  • 75. Which actor appeared in Larry Yust's 1969 film alongside Olive Dunbar and Jim Bowles?
A) Ernest Kinoy
B) Anthony Spinner
C) William Fawcett
D) Ed Begley
  • 76. Which actress was part of the cast of Larry Yust's 1969 film along with Irene Tedrow?
A) Olive Dunbar
B) Ellen M. Violett
C) Alyson Ward
D) Shirley Jackson
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