The answer is b i just took the test and got it right i hope i helped :)
One ritual that continued to the time of the story was the old black box being used to hold the villagers’ names. This ritual was necessary to ensure conformity among the members of the community because it kept a sense of tradition to the Lottery, so the villagers would fear discontinuing the Lottery- they’d be afraid of what would happen if they stopped the ancient ritual- it had been going on for a long time, so none of the villagers knew what would happen if they discontinued it.
Answer: A.
Explanation: The word which isn't necessary.
Oedipus is an example of an early form of the novel called a pastoral. Option C is correct.
Pastoral literature refers to a sort of literature that presents the society of shepherds as free from the complexity and corruption of city life. Themes include, notably, love and death.
Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology. The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex.
A. check the overall structure of your paper.