Flatland Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Flatland Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third unrecognized dimension in Flatland?
(a) Time
(b) Weight
(c) Height
(d) Space

2. What do upper class women do that lower class women try to imitate?
(a) Move their heads with rhythm
(b) Dance with rhythm
(c) Sing with rhythm
(d) Move their backsides with rhythm

3. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?
(a) The second dimension
(b) The fourth dimension
(c) The fifth dimension
(d) The first dimension

4. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?
(a) They are very strong.
(b) They are pointed on both ends.
(c) They are very smart.
(d) They have three pointed sides.

5. What does the shape of women prevent?
(a) Childbirth
(b) Walking
(c) Spontaneous passion
(d) Swimming

6. What ended the women's support of the bill?
(a) The attack of a young woman by an Right Triangle pretending to be a higher class shape
(b) The attack of a young woman by a Circle pretending to be a lower class shape
(c) The attack of a young woman by an Isosceles pretending to be a higher class shape.
(d) The attack of a young woman by a Square pretending to be a higher class shape

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

8. What does the editor say is his first reason for writing the preface?
(a) To introduce the novel
(b) To apologize for errors and misprints
(c) To thank readers and critics in Spaceland
(d) To explain misconceptions

9. What is the most common form of house construction in Flatland?
(a) Circle
(b) Square
(c) Pentagon
(d) Triangle

10. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?
(a) Literature and social sciences
(b) Literature and physics
(c) Literature and mathematics
(d) Literature and theology

11. What is customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?
(a) Never leave their apartments
(b) Never leave the house
(c) Never speak to their husbands
(d) Face their husbands

12. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?
(a) Move sideways
(b) Move south
(c) Rise above or beneath the surface
(d) Move north

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

14. What did Pantocyclus tell the workmen they would have to accept?
(a) Their ambitions for public office would be abolished.
(b) Their ambitions for priesthood would be abolished.
(c) Their ambitions for higher classes would be abolished.
(d) Their ambitions for military work would be abolished.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What classes are able to use this method?

2. What shape are women?

3. Why is this shape of house not allowed?

4. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?

5. What bill sought to color women and circles the same?

(see the answer keys)

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