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

2. What is a circle in Flatland?
(a) A true circle, with no sides
(b) A term for anyone higher than a triangle
(c) A polygon with many sides
(d) A term for anyone higher than a woman

3. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
(a) Because God's do not exist.
(b) Because if it were, no one would be God.
(c) Because if it were, everyone in Flatland would be a God.
(d) Because if it were, the criminals of Spaceland would be the Gods of Flatland.

4. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?
(a) He will take him to Pointland.
(b) He will take him to Spaceland.
(c) He will kill him.
(d) He will take him to Lineland.

5. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?
(a) Triangles and Squares
(b) Solids
(c) Circles
(d) Straight lines

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?

2. What is believed to cause deviance?

3. What does the "pull" in Flatland represent in Spaceland?

4. What ended the women's support of the bill?

5. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

(see the answer key)

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