Question

1) Choose the best answer.

What is the point of view of the story in The Lottery Ticket?

third person limited

first person limited

first person omniscient

third person omniscient



2) Choose the best answer.

What information do you learn about Ivan in the first paragraph?

He's a very wealthy man.

He's very sickly and wealthy.

He's a poor man.

He's middle class.



3) Choose True or False.
Ivan's initial response to seeing the series numbers of his wife's ticket in the paper is to be angry.


False

True



4) Choose the best answer.

The following quote contains what literary technique?
"To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!"


personification

irony

metaphor

simile



5) Choose the best answer.

What sort of inference can you make from the following statement?
"That's not money, but power, capital!"


He's greedy.

He's creative.

He's angry.

He's giving.



6) Choose the best answer.

What word from the text describes how Ivan and Masha feel about the "possibility of winning"?

melancholy

bewildered

angry

apathetic



7) Choose THREE that apply.

Select the following examples of imagery from the description of Ivan's dream spending time in Tula or St. Martin.

summer soup, cold as ice

dampness on my skin

cold winds on my face

opaque soapy circles

burning sand



8) Choose True or False.
Ivan is very excited at the thought of spending quality time with his loving wife.


False

True



9) Choose the best answer.

How does Ivan begin to view his wife "for the first time in his life"?

as being stunning

as being a kind soul

as being old-looking

as being a giving woman



10) Choose True or False.
Ivan does not enjoy being around his relatives.


True

False



11) Choose the best answer.

What figure of speech does Ivan use to refer to his own relatives?

simile

metaphor

assonance

alliteration



12) Choose True or False.
Ivan and Masha feel a sense of relief when they realize they did not win the lottery.


False

True

Answer 1

1) third person limited

2) He's middle class.

3) True

4) personification

5) He's greedy.

6) bewildered

7) dampness on my skin; cold winds on my face; burning sand

8) False

9) as being old-looking

10) True

11) metaphor

12) True