Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
The last name of the family who "loses" the lottery.
What is Hutchinson?
Where Victor attends college.
What is Ingolstadt?
The name of the execution device that the Officer defends ("apparatus" does not count).
What is the Harrow?
The name of the body that is said to control the Lottery.
What is the Company?
The name of Myrna's son
What is Kenny?
The last name of the man who runs the lottery, square dances, etc.
What is Summers?
Where Victor Frankenstein is from.
What is Geneva?
The animal to which the Condemned is compared early in the story.
What is a dog?
The name of the "sacred latrine" that was thought to house the controllers of the lottery.
What is Qaphqa?
Two of the components of the meal that Myrna prepares for her son when he arrives home.
The symbol on the ballot that represents loss
What is a black spot?
The two professors with whom Victor studies at Ingolstadt.
Who are Krempe and Waldman?
Name one other text that Franz Kafka wrote (we discussed two in class)
What is The Metamorphoses or The Trial?
What the narrator is preparing to do as he writes about the lottery.
What is boarding a ship/sailing away?
Myrna's profession
What is Seamstress?
Name the month in which the lottery takes place.
What is June?
Name two of the languages that Victor and Clerval study at Ingolstadt following the creature's animation.
What is Persian, Arabic, or Sanskrit?
What happened to the Old Commandant's body following his death.
What is buried outside the cemetery/buried outside the tea house/tried to be dug up by his followers/etc.?
How long ago the lottery was said to start as a game only played by commoners.
What is no one knows ("centuries? "years?")?
The name of Myrna's ex-husband and her son's father.
What is Buddy?
Name one of the children of the family who "loses" the lottery
What is Eva, Bill Jr., Nancy, or little Dave?
The full name of Robert Walton's sister.
What is Margaret Saville?
The message that the Harrow will inscribe upon the Condemned Man.
What is "honour your superiors?"
An example of an "impersonal drawing."
What is a sapphire thrown into the Euphrates, a bird being released from a tower, or the addition/subtraction of sand from a certain beach?
What is gin?