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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 used to describe the size of the woman who passes out flowers?
(a) Tall.
(b) Tiny.
(c) Small.
(d) Slight.
2. In what location does the child sit as he plays his instrument in Omelas?
(a) Away from the crowd.
(b) At the back of the stage.
(c) In the center arena.
(d) In the thick of the crowd.
3. The sound of the instrument played immediately after the child's performance emerges from what location?
(a) The sea.
(b) The mountains.
(c) The square.
(d) The pavilion.
4. What other action is the woman taking as she passes out flowers?
(a) She is weeping.
(b) She is murmuring.
(c) She is laughing.
(d) She is cheering.
5. What quality of the scapegoat's existence results in favorable effects for all other citizens?
(a) Its loyalty.
(b) Its confusion.
(c) Its misery.
(d) Its isolation.
Short Answer Questions
1. What element of the festival is described as bing "like a field of grass and flowers" (6)?
2. LeGuin instructs the reader, saying, "Let me describe" (7) how many other things?
3. What action is taken to get the scapegoat child to move?
4. What actions do the horses take that leads the young men and women to speak to them?
5. The people who come to view the scapegoat child are said to feel in what way?
Short Essay Questions
1. What details are given about the scapegoat child's present?
2. How does the scapegoat child's behavior change over time?
3. Describe the child who plays a musical instrument within Omelas.
4. How is food used to indicate the satisfaction of Omelas's citizens?
5. How does LeGuin acknowledge that her story of Omelas sounds too good to be true before she reveals Omelas's one moral failing?
6. How is the motif of pain depicted within Paragraph 8?
7. What elements of Omelas are dependent upon the scapegoat child's miserable position?
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 is the "one more thing" (7) LeGuin shares about Omelas in Paragraph 8?
10. In what way does LeGuin magnify the role of the child musician within Omelas?
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