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

2. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?
(a) The author's presentation of Triangles
(b) The author's presentation of Circles
(c) The author's presentation of Pentagons
(d) The author's presentation of Squares

3. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is temporal.
(b) It is stable.
(c) It is unstable.
(d) It is spatial.

4. What is the Law of Nature?
(a) The tendency for any shape out of the ordinary to be killed.
(b) The tendency for each generation to drop in standing.
(c) The tendency for each generation to rise in standing.
(d) The tendency for each generation to remain stable over time.

5. How do families rise in standing?
(a) Each generation is educated in a more superior manner.
(b) Each generation is born with one new side.
(c) Each generation is born with one less side.
(d) They do not; statuses are unchangeable in Flatland.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does marriage occur in Lineland?

2. What does the editor say is his first reason for writing the preface?

3. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?

4. Why were women in support of the bill?

5. What happened to those who attempted to discover the source of light in Flatland?

(see the answer key)

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