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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The scapegoat child promises to take what action if it is released?
(a) To go back home.
(b) To be good.
(c) To leave Omelas forever.
(d) To forgive its tormentors.

2. Over time, the scapegoat child is said to take what action "less and less often" (8)?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Speak.
(c) Cry.
(d) Eat.

3. What type of contest lies at the center of the festival depicted in Omelas?
(a) A fight to the death.
(b) A dressage event.
(c) A race.
(d) A beauty contest.

4. The child who plays the instrument in Omelas never does what in relation to his audience?
(a) Hears them.
(b) Sings to them.
(c) Acknowledges them.
(d) Sees them.

5. In what location is the scapegoat child kept?
(a) An attic.
(b) A closet.
(c) A shed.
(d) A cellar.

Short Answer Questions

1. The faces of the children at the festival are described as "amiably" (4) what?

2. How old is the scapegoat child of Omelas, according to Paragraph 8?

3. What word is NOT used to describe the tune played by the child with the instrument?

4. The young men participating in the festival's main event are said to be what?

5. What action is taken to get the scapegoat child to move?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does LeGuin magnify the role of the child musician within Omelas?

2. For what purpose does LeGuin include the motif of pain within Paragraph 8?

3. How does the scapegoat child's behavior change over time?

4. How is irony present within LeGuin's description of the losses that Omelas would experience if the scapegoat child were to be set free?

5. For what purpose does LeGuin provide a time marker at the start of Paragraph 4?

6. After LeGuin assumes that she knows the reader's answers to her four questions, she instructs the reader to allow her to take what action?

7. How does LeGuin acknowledge that her story of Omelas sounds too good to be true before she reveals Omelas's one moral failing?

8. How is foreshadowing present within the horse riders' interactions with their horses?

9. Describe the child who plays a musical instrument within Omelas.

10. What answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?

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