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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. How many paces long is the dwelling of the scapegoat child?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.
2. What actions do the horses take that leads the young men and women to speak to them?
(a) They stomp.
(b) They rear.
(c) They whinny.
(d) They kick.
3. What does the scapegoat child wear?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A burlap sack.
(c) A hair shirt.
(d) A dress.
4. In what location is the scapegoat child kept?
(a) A closet.
(b) A shed.
(c) A cellar.
(d) An attic.
5. What quality of the scapegoat's existence results in favorable effects for all other citizens?
(a) Its confusion.
(b) Its isolation.
(c) Its misery.
(d) Its loyalty.
Short Answer Questions
1. The woman passing out flowers is described as having what type of body?
2. Toward what location do the processions move during the festival celebrations?
3. The scapegoat child is said to recall the sound of whose voice?
4. How many people in Omelas know about the scapegoat child?
5. What smell at the festival is described as "marvelous" (4)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What details are given about the scapegoat child's future?
2. What answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?
3. How is foreshadowing present within the horse riders' interactions with their horses?
4. What details are given about the scapegoat child's present?
5. What is LeGuin's purpose for portraying the child who plays a musical instrument within the community of Omelas?
6. How does the scapegoat child's behavior change over time?
7. Describe the riders' interactions with their horses before the Festival of Summer race.
8. How is the motif of pain depicted within Paragraph 8?
9. What details are given about the scapegoat child's past?
10. LeGuin provides what sort of time marker within the beginning of Paragraph 4?
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