English, 22.04.2020 17:31 mountainwilson

Read the excerpt from "The Lottery."
Based on the setting details in this excerpt, the reader is
led to believe that
The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with
fresh warmth of a full-summer day, the flowers were
blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The
people of the village began to gather in the square,
between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in
some towns there were so many people that the lottery
took two days and had to be started on June 26th, but in
this village, where there were only about three hundred
people, the whole lottery took only about two hours, so it
could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be
through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon
dinner
A. the square in the village is a historical landmark that is
guarded daily
B. the villagers are hungry and in a hurry to get home for
their lunch.
C. the June 27th date is an important tradition that occurs
in summer.
D. the lottery is shorter now that population of the village
has decreased

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