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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 be good.
(b) To go back home.
(c) To leave Omelas forever.
(d) To forgive its tormentors.

2. In what location does the child sit as he plays his instrument in Omelas?
(a) In the center arena.
(b) At the back of the stage.
(c) Away from the crowd.
(d) In the thick of the crowd.

3. LeGuin announces at the end of Paragraph 6 that "The Festival...has" what?
(a) Begun.
(b) Started.
(c) Ended.
(d) Commenced.

4. How many people in Omelas know about the scapegoat child?
(a) All.
(b) Few.
(c) Some.
(d) Many.

5. In what manner does the child playing the instrument take his next action after he stops playing?
(a) Slowly.
(b) Carefully.
(c) Quickly.
(d) Reluctantly.

Short Answer Questions

1. The scapegoat child is afraid of which objects within its dwelling?

2. The scapegoat child is said to recall the sound of whose voice?

3. What type of instrument is played by one particular child within Omelas?

4. People who view the scapegoat child feel what emotion that they had assumed they were immune to?

5. The developmental delays apparent in the scapegoat child are NOT said to be caused by what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. On what types of food does the scapegoat child survive?

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

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

9. What details are given about the scapegoat child's future?

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

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