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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. The young men and women stroke what parts of their horses during the festival?

2. What event is being celebrated at the depicted festival?

3. Who wears the woman's flowers in their hair after taking them from her?

4. LeGuin announces at the end of Paragraph 6 that "The Festival...has" what?

5. LeGuin instructs the reader, saying, "Let me describe" (7) how many other things?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does LeGuin magnify the role of the child musician within Omelas?

2. What details are given about the scapegoat child's future?

3. 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?

4. What details are given about the scapegoat child's present?

5. For what purpose does LeGuin include the motif of pain within Paragraph 8?

6. How does the scapegoat child's behavior change over time?

7. Describe the woman who hands out flowers during the festival.

8. LeGuin provides what sort of time marker within the beginning of Paragraph 4?

9. What details are given about the scapegoat child's past?

10. What answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What criteria does LeGuin use to determine what elements of modern society could be allowed in a true utopia?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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