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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first means of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Hearing
(b) Sight
(c) Touch
(d) Smell

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

3. What was Edwin Abbott's field of interest?
(a) Social Relations
(b) Math
(c) Science
(d) Classics

4. What classes are able to use this method?
(a) Upper classes
(b) Lower classes
(c) Only circles
(d) All classes

5. What do those in power actually do?
(a) Nothing
(b) Everything
(c) All things relating to religion
(d) All things relating to government

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of the lesson?

2. Who does A. Square decide is fit for his lesson?

3. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?

4. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?

5. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?

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