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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. How old is the scapegoat child of Omelas, according to Paragraph 8?
2. LeGuin states that to rescue the scapegoat child would be to "bring" (11) what emotion into Omelas?
3. What action is the scapegoat child said to be doing inside its dwelling?
4. The scapegoat child is said to "occasionally" (8) engage in what habit?
5. The woman passing out flowers is described as having what type of body?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the scapegoat child's behavior change over time?
2. How is the truth about the scapegoat child revealed to young members of Omelas society?
3. Describe the riders' interactions with their horses before the Festival of Summer race.
4. What details are given about the scapegoat child's present?
5. In what way does LeGuin magnify the role of the child musician within Omelas?
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. LeGuin provides what sort of time marker within the beginning of Paragraph 4?
8. Describe the woman who hands out flowers during the festival.
9. How is irony present within LeGuin's description of the losses that Omelas would experience if the scapegoat child were to be set free?
10. What is LeGuin's purpose for portraying the child who plays a musical instrument within the community of Omelas?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within LeGuin’s story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Determine LeGuin’s message within the story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" regarding the topic of exploitation.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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