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

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

3. What happens to the most irregular shapes?
(a) They are allowed to marry into a higher class.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They are allowed into public office.
(d) They are imprisoned.

4. What shape are soldiers?
(a) Squares
(b) Isosceles Triangles
(c) Equilateral triangles
(d) Straight lines

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is hearing only used on occasion as a recognition method?

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

3. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?

4. Why does A. Square call the stranger his "lordship"?

5. Who is Pantocyclus?

(see the answer key)

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