Read The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas and answer these questions

The people of Omelas were preparing for ___. *
a) The winter solace
b) The Autumn Moon
c) The Festival of Summer
d) Exposure of the child

2) Which word best describes the type of government that governs Omelas? *
a) Monarchy
b) Totalitarianism
c) Anarchy
d) None of the above

3) According to the text, the people of Omelas can be described as all of the following EXCEPT *
a) Mature
b) Passionate
c) Simple
d) Intelligent

4) The setting of “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is *
a) In the mountains, current time
b) Omelas, Summer Festival
c) In the desert, future
d) Another planet, future

5) Omelas is an anagram for *
a) New York, New York
b) Salem, Oregon
c) Lancaster, Pennsylvania
d) Miami, Florida

6) In the beginning of the story, the beautiful city of Omelas that Le Guin describes could be considered a Utopian community; however, as the reader continues to read, they learn that this society contains all of the following except a *
a) Flaw
b) Blessing
c) Defect
d) Imperfection

7) According to the author, what is the “incredible” aspect of Omelas? After seeing the child sometimes … *
a) “The people speak a kind word to the child”
b) “The people begin to instill laws”
c) “They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness”
d) “They feel disgust, which they had thought themselves superior to”

8) The terms in Omelas are *
a) “irrational”
b) ”strict and absolute”
c) “unknown and confusing”
d) “barbaric and unforgiving”

9) The child in the basement can symbolize all of the following except *
a) Isolation
b) Sacrifice
c) Eternity
d) Scapegoat

10) The mood/tone of the text in the beginning of the story can be described as _____. The mood changes after the child in the cellar in introduced to the reader. Le Guin’s description of the child creates a sense of __________. *
a) Joyful; blissfulness
b) Blissful; misery
c) Anguish; depression
d) Felicity; affection

11) All of the following sentences are evidence of the mood/tone developed in the beginning of Omelas EXCEPT *
a) “The music beat faster, a shimmering gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing ..."
b) “Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecile …”
c) “The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags.”
d) “Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green.”

12) Which statement is undoubtedly true? *
a) The child in the cellar is a young girl
b) The child in the cellar is a young boy
c) The child can remember sunlight and its mother’s voice
d) The child has been placed in the basement because it is defective

13) Where do the people go when they leave Omelas? *
a) To another town
b) To the police station
c) To the homes of the families that they left behind
d) It is unknown

14) Why has the child been placed in the cellar? *
a) It was born defective and therefore must be kept away from the rest of the people in Omelas
b) It is an imbecile and therefore cannot participate with the rest of the community
c) The happiness of the people in Omelas depends solely on the child’s misery
d) It is being punished for not participating in the Summer Festival

15) Which SET of words BEST describes the living conditions of the child in the cellar? *
a) Sanitary, organized, and tidy
b) Unsanitary, organized, and filled with nutritious meals
c) Unsanitary, neglectful, unhealthy
d) Unsanitary, unpolluted, thriving

16) Which of the following is TRUE about the city of Omelas? *
a) They had slaves
b) They were noble savages
c) They were less complex than others
d) They did not use swords

17) According to Le Guin, happiness is based ___. *
a) On the dependence on technology
b) On the ability to create great art
c) On comfort of luxury
d) On a just discrimination of what is necessary

18) Which statement best describes the paradox present in the story? *
a) The people of Omelas are happy and preparing for the Festival of Summer
b) Some people walk away from Omelas
c) A city that appears to be a Utopia filled with joy has a dark secret (their happiness depends the ultimate misery of an innocent child)
d) The narrator is unreliable

19) What type of conflict exists in Omelas? *
a) Internal
b) External
c) Man vs. self
d) All of the above
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