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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. What quality of the scapegoat's existence results in favorable effects for all other citizens?
(a) Its confusion.
(b) Its misery.
(c) Its loyalty.
(d) Its isolation.

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

3. The faces of the children at the festival are described as "amiably" (4) what?
(a) Tired.
(b) Sticky.
(c) Grumpy.
(d) Grouchy.

4. The scapegoat child is said to recall the sound of whose voice?
(a) God.
(b) The mayor.
(c) Its mother.
(d) Its nanny.

5. How old is the scapegoat child of Omelas, according to Paragraph 8?
(a) 14.
(b) Nearly 10.
(c) 12.
(d) Nearly 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. What smell at the festival is described as "marvelous" (4)?

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

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

4. Toward what location do the processions move during the festival celebrations?

5. How many people in Omelas know about the scapegoat child?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the motif of pain depicted within Paragraph 8?

2. What details are given about the scapegoat child's past?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the "one more thing" (7) LeGuin shares about Omelas in Paragraph 8?

6. How is food used to indicate the satisfaction of Omelas's citizens?

7. Describe the woman who hands out flowers during the festival.

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

9. LeGuin provides what sort of time marker within the beginning of Paragraph 4?

10. Describe the riders' interactions with their horses before the Festival of Summer race.

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