Answer:
The underlined phrases set an ironic tone since they imply that:
D. the community's raffling of names will cause little interruption in its daily life.
Explanation:
Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) was an American writer whose horror and mystery stories are still very successful. Among them is "The Lottery", a short story in which the community of a rural village carries out a lottery every year in order to decide who will be stoned to death.
That is right, however scary it may seem: the people draw pieces of paper, and the one to get the dotted piece in the end is killed by the other villagers. <u>Dying and killing should be a great deal, a terrible thing, right? Yet, as we can see in the phrases in the question, they were not that great or terrible. The villagers are actually kind of in a hurry to get it all over with as soon as possible, so that they can go back to work. How ironic is it that something that is a matter of life and death should be done so frivolously? They kill, and then move on with their lives, going back home in time for lunch.</u>
