Analyzing Irony in "The Lottery" & "The Destructors

Quiz WEEK 3 Reading Comprehension - The Lottery Download Reading Comprehension - The Lottery The setting of the story is ironic because __________. there are parallels between summer and winning the lottery beautiful summer day in June is an ideal day to win the lottery Correct! a ritual murder takes place on a beautiful summer (June) day children engaged in boisterous play are juxtaposed with querulous adults Question 2 1.6 / 1.6 pts Reading Comprehension - The Lottery Download Reading Comprehension - The Lottery How the story opens and how it ends ________________. Offers little or no surprises Correct! Shock its readers Is mundane Is example of bathos Question 3 1.6 / 1.6 pts Reading Comprehension - The Lottery Download Reading Comprehension - The Lottery How the excerpt opens and how it ends ___________.

Offer little or no surprises Serves as an example of understatement Is mundane Correct! Exemplifies irony Question 4 0 / 1.6 pts Reading Comprehension - The Lottery Download Reading Comprehension - The Lottery One can conclude from the passage that ____________. The protagonist wins Correct Answer The antagonist wins You Answered There are no winners and losers The characters would begin to question the lottery Question 5 1.6 / 1.6 pts Reading Comprehension - The Lottery Download Reading Comprehension - The Lottery

That little Davy Hutchinson, the small son of the victim, is given a few pebbles to throw at his mother suggests that __________. Correct! Everyone, including the victim’s family, participates in the tradition He is forced to participate Without his participation the event cannot proceed He must throw the fatal stone Question 6 1.6 / 1.6 pts Read this excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and answer the question that follows: “Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand. Suddenly, Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers. ‘You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!’ ‘Be a good sport, Tessie.’ Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, ‘All of us took the same chance.’ Considering the dire consequences for winning “The Lottery,” which of the following statements is ironic and out of place? "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted.” Correct! "Be a good sport, Tessie." Mrs. Delacroix called…” “It wasn't fair!" "All of us took the same chance." Question 7 1.6 / 1.6 pts Read this excerpt from “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and answer the question that follows: “There was no sign of anybody anywhere. The loo

stood like a tomb in a neglected graveyard. The curtains were drawn. The house slept.” The statement that the “loo stood like a tomb” is an example of? Correct! Simile Metaphor alliteration Rhyme Scheme Question 8 1.6 / 1.6 pts Read this excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and answer the question that follows: "Be a good sport, Tessie." Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, "All of us took the same chance." If the word Delacroix (the name of one of the characters in “The Lottery”) means “of the cross,” which of the following figures of speech is used? Personification Correct! Allusion Understatement Cross Purposes Question 9 1.6 / 1.6 pts

In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors,” the statement that T’s words “were almost confined to voting ‘Yes’ or ‘No’” suggests that he is __________. callous dumb Correct! quiet cold Question 10 0 / 1.6 pts Read this excerpt from “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and answer the question that follows: “Blackie lumbered nearer the saw and the sledge- hammer. Perhaps after all nobody had turned up; the plan had been a wild invention; they had woken wiser. But when he came close to the back door he could hear a confusion of sound hardly louder than a hive in swarm; a clickety-clack, a bang bang bang, a scraping, a creaking, a sudden painful crack. He thought; it’s true, and whistled.” Why is confusion an effective choice? Correct Answer Shows intense effort Proves a lack of direction You Answered Indicates discordant attitudes Underscores the faulty plan

Question 11 1.6 / 1.6 pts Close to the beginning of Graham Greene’s “The Destructors,” this information is given about the gang: The gang met every morning in an impromptu car park, the site of the last bomb of the first blitz. The leader, who was known as Blackie, claimed to have heard it fall, and no one was precise enough in his dates to point out he would have been one year old and fast asleep on the down platform of Wormsley Common Underground station. On one side of the car park leant the first occupied house, No.3. T, whose words were almost confined to voting ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the plan of operations proposed each day by Blackie…” From the passage, the evidence is given that members are disinclined to: Correct! Analyze. Repair damaged buildings. Travel the railroad. Be punctual. Question 12 0 / 1.6 pts Read this excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and answer the question that follows: “The night before the lottery, Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made up the slips of paper and put them in the box, and it was then taken to the safe of Mr. Summers' coal company and locked up until Mr. Summers was ready to take it to the square next morning.” This excerpt shows a certain incongruity. Which of the following best illustrates this? Correct Answer Summers and Graves Night and Morning

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