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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 adverse effect did the new wave of color have?
(a) There was a decline in reproduction.
(b) There was an increase in crime.
(c) There was a decline in intellectual pursuit.
(d) There was an increase in mortality rates.

2. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?
(a) Not all aspects of Flatland are meant to correspond to Spaceland.
(b) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(c) The book is to be taken literally at all times.
(d) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.

3. What does A. Square blame for the inhabitants' inability to discern North in the normal way?
(a) Lack of a sense of direction
(b) Lack of sight
(c) Lack of compasses
(d) Lack of a sun

4. What does A. Square say about the laws regarding irregulars?
(a) They are for the good of society.
(b) They are unsafe and create problems.
(c) They are brutal and unfair.
(d) They are unlikely to help society.

5. What does A. Square point out about the King's space?
(a) It is a plane.
(b) It is a square.
(c) It is a line.
(d) It is a circle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author call the land he writes about Flatland?

2. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?

3. What shape of houses is not allowed?

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

5. Who controls Flatland?

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