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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What classes are able to use this method?
(a) Only circles
(b) Lower classes
(c) Upper classes
(d) All classes

2. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?
(a) Plumber
(b) Headmaster
(c) Mathematician
(d) Writer

3. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?
(a) It is easy to confuse Isosceles triangles with Equilateral triangles.
(b) It is easy to confuse a square with a triangle.
(c) It is easy to confuse a ten-sided shape with a twelve-sided shape.
(d) All angles feel the same.

4. What bill sought to color women and circles the same?
(a) The Flatland Sight bill
(b) The Universal Recognition bill
(c) The Universal Color bill
(d) The Spaceland Color bill

5. What does the line claim to be?
(a) The Queen
(b) A Priest
(c) The King
(d) A Prince

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were women in support of the bill?

2. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?

3. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?

4. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?

5. Who was the first person to invent color?

(see the answer key)

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