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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. Most people who come to view the scapegoat child are what?
(a) In crisis.
(b) Young.
(c) Old.
(d) Sad.
2. How many locked doors does the scapegoat's dwelling have?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.
3. In what manner does the child playing the instrument take his next action after he stops playing?
(a) Reluctantly.
(b) Carefully.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Quickly.
4. What phrase or word involving time does LeGuin use in the first sentence of Paragraph 4?
(a) By then.
(b) Clock.
(c) By now.
(d) Ticking.
5. The scapegoat child promises to take what action if it is released?
(a) To leave Omelas forever.
(b) To go back home.
(c) To be good.
(d) To forgive its tormentors.
Short Answer Questions
1. The children of Omelas learn about the scapegoat child when they are between what ages?
2. The scapegoat child is said to recall the sound of whose voice?
3. What quality of the scapegoat's existence results in favorable effects for all other citizens?
4. The sound of the instrument played immediately after the child's performance emerges from what location?
5. The scapegoat child is said to have "no understanding of" (8) what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What details are given about the scapegoat child's future?
2. For what reason does LeGuin focus on the citizens' awareness of the scapegoat child's presence?
3. What answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?
4. How is the motif of pain depicted within Paragraph 8?
5. Describe the child who plays a musical instrument within Omelas.
6. How is food used to indicate the satisfaction of Omelas's citizens?
7. What details are given about the scapegoat child's present?
8. How does LeGuin acknowledge that her story of Omelas sounds too good to be true before she reveals Omelas's one moral failing?
9. For what purpose does LeGuin provide a time marker at the start of Paragraph 4?
10. LeGuin provides what sort of time marker within the beginning of Paragraph 4?
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