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