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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 many of the same frightening objects are usually present within the scapegoat child's dwelling?
2. LeGuin announces at the end of Paragraph 6 that "The Festival...has" what?
3. LeGuin instructs the reader, saying, "Let me describe" (7) how many other things?
4. The woman passing out flowers is described as having what type of body?
5. The young men participating in the festival's main event are said to be what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is foreshadowing present within the horse riders' interactions with their horses?
2. How is the truth about the scapegoat child revealed to young members of Omelas society?
3. What answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?
4. 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?
5. How is irony present within LeGuin's description of the losses that Omelas would experience if the scapegoat child were to be set free?
6. On what types of food does the scapegoat child survive?
7. What is the "one more thing" (7) LeGuin shares about Omelas in Paragraph 8?
8. Describe the riders' interactions with their horses before the Festival of Summer race.
9. LeGuin provides what sort of time marker within the beginning of Paragraph 4?
10. For what purpose does LeGuin include the motif of pain within Paragraph 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the topic of humanism treated within "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and how does its treatment relate to the story's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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