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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. No one at the festival takes what action in response to the child who plays his instrument?
2. The floor of the scapegoat's dwelling is said to be what "to the touch" (8)?
3. How many people in Omelas know about the scapegoat child?
4. The child who plays the instrument in Omelas never does what in relation to his audience?
5. The woman who passes out flowers does so using what type of receptacle?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the riders' interactions with their horses before the Festival of Summer race.
2. On what types of food does the scapegoat child survive?
3. How does LeGuin acknowledge that her story of Omelas sounds too good to be true before she reveals Omelas's one moral failing?
4. What details are given about the scapegoat child's past?
5. How does the scapegoat child's behavior change over time?
6. How is the motif of pain depicted within Paragraph 8?
7. What is LeGuin's purpose for portraying the child who plays a musical instrument within the community of Omelas?
8. For what reason does LeGuin focus on the citizens' awareness of the scapegoat child's presence?
9. What answer does LeGuin expect from the reader in answer to her four questions and why?
10. For what purpose does LeGuin provide a time marker at the start of Paragraph 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how and why LeGuin instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
Essay Topic 2
What claims is the story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" making about the human condition and why?
Essay Topic 3
Look carefully at the passages of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" that describe in detail the living conditions of the scapegoat child. What is LeGuin’s purpose for discussing this particular setting at length?
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