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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of contest lies at the center of the festival depicted in Omelas?
2. If the scapegoat child were to be rescued, what elements of Omelas's society would be destroyed?
3. How many paces long is the dwelling of the scapegoat child?
4. How many paces wide is the dwelling of the scapegoat child?
5. LeGuin states that the scapegoat child "used to" (8) do what at night?
Short Essay Questions
1. What details are given about the scapegoat child's future?
2. LeGuin provides what sort of time marker within the beginning of Paragraph 4?
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 child who plays a musical instrument within Omelas.
5. Describe the riders' interactions with their horses before the Festival of Summer race.
6. What answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?
7. How is foreshadowing present within the horse riders' interactions with their horses?
8. Describe the woman who hands out flowers during the festival.
9. For what reason does LeGuin focus on the citizens' awareness of the scapegoat child's presence?
10. What details are given about the scapegoat child's past?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze LeGuin’s focus on the theme of self-deception in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." What message is LeGuin sending about the power of self-deception and for what purpose is she sending this message?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the way in which LeGuin uses a formula involving necessity, destruction, and need to determine which elements can be part of her version of a utopia.
Essay Topic 3
What messages does LeGuin send about perfection and what themes are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?
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