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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, How I Came to Spaceland and What I Saw There.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are readers assumed to live?
(a) Spaceland
(b) Timeland
(c) Pointland
(d) Earthland

2. From which direction do women enter houses?
(a) South
(b) None, as directions don't exist in Flatland
(c) East
(d) West

3. What happens to a line as it gets further away in Flatland?
(a) It gets smaller.
(b) It gets thicker.
(c) It gets larger.
(d) It gets thinner.

4. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?
(a) Such actions result in the death of more women.
(b) Such actions result in higher birth rates.
(c) Such actions result in the death of more men.
(d) Such actions result in higher suicide rates.

5. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?
(a) They cannot work.
(b) They are less intelligent.
(c) They cannot have children.
(d) They breed with one another and give birth to irregulars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most common form of house construction in Flatland?

2. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?

3. Why are there no windows in houses of Flatland?

4. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?

5. Who is the editor, in reality, who wrote the Preface?

(see the answer key)

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