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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What element of the festival is described as bing "like a field of grass and flowers" (6)?
(a) The children.
(b) The youth.
(c) The crowds.
(d) The contestants.

2. How many locked doors does the scapegoat's dwelling have?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

3. What age is the woman who passes out flowers at the festival?
(a) Old.
(b) In her adolescence.
(c) Middle-aged.
(d) Ageless.

4. The people who come to view the scapegoat child are said to feel in what way?
(a) Shocked.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Conflicted.
(d) Saddened.

5. Most people who come to view the scapegoat child are what?
(a) In crisis.
(b) Sad.
(c) Old.
(d) Young.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman passing out flowers is described as having what type of body?

2. How many paces long is the dwelling of the scapegoat child?

3. The scapegoat child is afraid of which objects within its dwelling?

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

5. The floor of the scapegoat child's dwelling is made of what material?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the truth about the scapegoat child revealed to young members of Omelas society?

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

3. For what reason does LeGuin focus on the citizens' awareness of the scapegoat child's presence?

4. How does LeGuin acknowledge that her story of Omelas sounds too good to be true before she reveals Omelas's one moral failing?

5. 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?

6. What elements of Omelas are dependent upon the scapegoat child's miserable position?

7. How is food used to indicate the satisfaction of Omelas's citizens?

8. How is the motif of pain depicted within Paragraph 8?

9. Describe the child who plays a musical instrument within Omelas.

10. What is the "one more thing" (7) LeGuin shares about Omelas in Paragraph 8?

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