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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 child who plays one particular instrument in Omela?
2. What type of contest lies at the center of the festival depicted in Omelas?
3. What age is the woman who passes out flowers at the festival?
4. What element of the festival is described as bing "like a field of grass and flowers" (6)?
5. The scapegoat child is afraid of which objects within its dwelling?
Short Essay Questions
1. What answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?
2. How is irony present within LeGuin's description of the losses that Omelas would experience if the scapegoat child were to be set free?
3. How is food used to indicate the satisfaction of Omelas's citizens?
4. For what purpose does LeGuin provide a time marker at the start of Paragraph 4?
5. Describe the child who plays a musical instrument within Omelas.
6. What is the "one more thing" (7) LeGuin shares about Omelas in Paragraph 8?
7. How is the motif of pain depicted within Paragraph 8?
8. 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?
9. What is LeGuin's purpose for portraying the child who plays a musical instrument within the community of Omelas?
10. Describe the riders' interactions with their horses before the Festival of Summer race.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the theme of guilt within "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." What is LeGuin’s message regarding guilt and how do you know?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how and why LeGuin instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
Essay Topic 3
What is the function of the young flute-player's character within the story? Discuss the characterization methods used by LeGuin in depicting the flute-player and why she uses these particular techniques.
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