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100

What is the item used to hold the papers at the lottery

What is the black box?

100

How were the "winners" of the lottery killed 

Pebbles being used/thrown

100

Who died at the end of the story

Who is Mrs./Tessie Dunbar?

100

How would people tell that they were selected for the lottery

Black dot on the paper slip

200

What are used to kill the "winner" of the lottery

What is the pile of pebbles

200

What is the setting of the day the lottery took place

hot, sunny, nice summer day

200

Who was considered  the official of the lottery

who is Mr. Summers

200

which side of the family do daughters draw for

Husbands family

300

Where in the village would the lottery take place

Village square

300

What is the reasons (s) why the title of the story is somewhat misleading or ironic to what actually happens at the end?

The lottery usually means that someone wins something good but at the end someone is killed

300

what is the time that the story took place

End of WW2 late 1940's setting

300

Who is the eldest among the village/lottery

who is old man Warner?

300

Where was the black box held each year

Changed all the time, One year in the post office, and another year on a shelf of the grocery store and left there

400

What were the items that the village used to use to draw in the lottery

wood chips

400

People felt bad for this person because he had no children and his wife was a "scold"

 who is Mr. Summers

400

How many times has old man Warner participated in the lottery

77 times

500

Who's wife had to draw for them at the lottery draw

Who is Clyde Dunbar?

500

How many children does Bill Hutchinson have

Three children