Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations. Chips of wood, Mr. Summers had argued, had been all very well when the village was tiny, but now that the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into the black box. 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. The rest of the year, the box was put away, sometimes one place, sometimes another; it had spent one year in Mr. Graves's barn and another year underfoot in the post office, and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there.

What important information does the setting in this excerpt communicate about the story?

C. The setting reveals that the village population is small and maintains a country lifestyle.

Explanation:

The short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson tells the story of an age-old tradition that a village kept despite its barbaric nature. This practice leads to the unconventional and death of a person per year.

The given excerpt from the story reveals the history of the practice of the "black box". And even though the narrator states that the population was "likely to keep on growing", the total was not that much, just "more than three hundred". Therefore, the setting of the story from the given passage can be easily inferred that the village is still a small and rural setting, which will obviously also maintain a country lifestyle.

Thus, the correct answer for the question is option C.

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explanation:

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