Analyzing Allegory in a Short Story

Question 1

Which is the significance of the two men’s names who create the slips for the lottery?

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D: The lottery happens every summer, and the winner of the lottery dies.

Question 2

Which statements best describe characteristics of an allegory? Choose all that apply.teaches a lessondescribes how to complete a taskuses facts to provide informationcomments on political, religious, and social issuescan be analyzed to reveal an implicit meaningdescribes historical events accurately using referencesuses characters to represent real people or abstract ideas

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A: teaches a lesson; D: comments on political, religious, and social issues; E: can be analyzed to reveal an implicit meaning; G: uses characters to represent real people or abstract ideas

Question 3

Which detail about the box suggests something sinister?

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D: The color represents darkness.

Question 4

What idea do the school children most likely represent?

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C: People can be brought up thinking terrible things are normal.

Question 5

Which statement provides a likely purpose of having the children gather the stones?

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C: to show how the next generation learns the tradition of the lottery

Question 6

Which choice best states the author’s purpose in writing the allegory?

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C: The author makes a statement about how people blindly continue terrible traditions.

Question 7

Why does the author most likely have the men behave in a reserved manner?

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A: to build a sense of uneasiness

Question 8

Mr. Graves never speaks in the story. Which is the significance of this detail?

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B: It highlights the fact that no one speaks out against the lottery even though it is murder.

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