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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 word is NOT used to describe the tune played by the child with the instrument?
(a) Sweet.
(b) Magic.
(c) Thin.
(d) Brooding.

2. What age is the woman who passes out flowers at the festival?
(a) Middle-aged.
(b) Old.
(c) Ageless.
(d) In her adolescence.

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

4. What adjective is used to describe the horses' legs?
(a) Long.
(b) Fragile.
(c) Slender.
(d) Muscular.

5. The floor of the scapegoat's dwelling is said to be what "to the touch" (8)?
(a) Cold.
(b) Hot.
(c) Sticky.
(d) Damp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective is used to describe the eyes of the child who plays the instrument at the festival?

2. The woman who passes out flowers does so using what type of receptacle?

3. The people who see the scapegoat child do NOT feel what emotion?

4. The sound of what instrument is described as "imperious, melancholy, piercing" (6)?

5. How many people are said to experience happiness due to the misery of the scapegoat child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What details are given about the scapegoat child's present?

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

8. What elements of Omelas are dependent upon the scapegoat child's miserable position?

9. 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?

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

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