The mood is mostly upbeat. It is also very calming, in the background, there are some girls singing a smooth melody! What I mean by upbeat is that the song use has good instruments to get a good rhythm. While listening to the song you would most likely feel like you would want to move around. It is not the type of song to make you want to "Do the Harlem Shake". The song is also particularly old.
When you hear about a lottery, you think about the chance to win something good (like money, trips, etc). In the story, the lottery ends up being something you definitely would not want to win. The less chance you have to “win”, the better.
Since <em>distant:intimate </em>are words that have opposite meanings, you need to find another pair of words with the same quality.
The correct answer is morose:joyous, because those two words mean different things.
"During the rock concert" would be the subject, as "an amplifier exploded on stage" would be the predicate.
