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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of economics does LeGuin say Omelas lacks?
(a) The free market.
(b) A tax structure.
(c) The stock exchange.
(d) Bankruptcies.

2. What two modes of transportation does LeGuin imagine the people of Omelas using in order to reach the Festival of Summer?
(a) People-movers and escalators.
(b) Bicycles and trains.
(c) Trains and trams.
(d) Boats and helicopters.

3. The first line of the story names what species of bird?
(a) Swallow.
(b) Puffin.
(c) Ptarmigan.
(d) Wren.

4. LeGuin states that modern society considers only what element of life to be "intellectual" (3) in nature?
(a) A degree.
(b) Self-reflection.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Pain.

5. How far away are the mountains that can be seen from Omelas?
(a) Nearly unreachable.
(b) Far off.
(c) Very close.
(d) Fairly near.

Short Answer Questions

1. The birds mentioned in the first line of the story are taking what action?

2. Crumbs of what food are said to be lingering in the gray beard of one festival attendee?

3. The sound of what instrument is heard at the festival just when the child stops playing his own instrument?

4. "The air of the morning" (1) is described in what manner?

5. LeGuin says that it "is the treason of" (3) whom to refuse to admit "the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain" (3)?

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