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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Of the Universal Color Bill.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shape are professional men?
(a) Equilateral or Isosceles triangles
(b) Hexagons
(c) Circles
(d) Squares or Pentagons

2. What is irregularity considered in Flatland?
(a) A rarity to be praised
(b) A way to achieve a higher class
(c) A character flaw
(d) Immoral and criminal

3. What effect did the end of this method have on the classes?
(a) The classes became further separated.
(b) There was a war between the classes.
(c) There was no effect.
(d) All classes became closer to equal.

4. What is the editor's defense of the first objection?
(a) That since direction cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(b) That since weight cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(c) That since distance cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(d) That since thickness cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.

5. What does the editor say is the second objection to the novel?
(a) That the author hates priests.
(b) That the author hates women.
(c) That the author hates children.
(d) That the author hates men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?

2. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?

3. What object that helps sight in Spaceland does not exist in Flatland?

4. What class does the Equilateral triangle represent?

5. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?

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