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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. On the few occasions when the door to the scapegoat child's dwelling opens, the door makes what noise?
(a) It shrieks.
(b) It squeals.
(c) It whines.
(d) It rattles.

2. The people who come to view the scapegoat child are said to feel in what way?
(a) Shocked.
(b) Conflicted.
(c) Saddened.
(d) Guilty.

3. The scapegoat child is said to "occasionally" (8) engage in what habit?
(a) Counting the stars.
(b) Picking its nose.
(c) Sucking its thumb.
(d) Rocking back and forth.

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

5. LeGuin instructs the reader, saying, "Let me describe" (7) how many other things?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The faces of the children at the festival are described as "amiably" (4) what?

3. What does the scapegoat child wear?

4. What phrase or word involving time does LeGuin use in the first sentence of Paragraph 4?

5. What type of contest lies at the center of the festival depicted in Omelas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For what purpose does LeGuin provide a time marker at the start of Paragraph 4?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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 answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?

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

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