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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 action does the musician child take when he is finished playing his instrument?
2. What actions do the horses take that leads the young men and women to speak to them?
3. What type of contest lies at the center of the festival depicted in Omelas?
4. The scapegoat child is said to "occasionally" (8) engage in what habit?
5. LeGuin states that for the happiness of Omelas to remain intact, not even what action can be taken in relation to the scapegoat child?
Short Essay Questions
1. On what types of food does the scapegoat child survive?
2. How is the motif of pain depicted within Paragraph 8?
3. For what purpose does LeGuin include the motif of pain within Paragraph 8?
4. How is food used to indicate the satisfaction of Omelas's citizens?
5. What details are given about the scapegoat child's present?
6. Describe the woman who hands out flowers during the festival.
7. What elements of Omelas are dependent upon the scapegoat child's miserable position?
8. What details are given about the scapegoat child's past?
9. How is foreshadowing present within the horse riders' interactions with their horses?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look carefully at the passages of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" that describe in detail the living conditions of the scapegoat child. What is LeGuin’s purpose for discussing this particular setting at length?
Essay Topic 2
How does LeGuin define technology and how does the topic intersect with the goals of the story?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and analyze LeGuin’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.
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