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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are women not taught to do?
(a) Read
(b) Drive
(c) Walk
(d) Speak

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

3. What is the result of the lesson?
(a) The student leaves the room.
(b) The student understands.
(c) The student turns A. Square in to the Council.
(d) The student accuses A. Square of insanity.

4. What is believed to cause deviance?
(a) Lower class status
(b) Upbringing
(c) A sense of rejection
(d) Irregular shape

5. What method of recognition is considered illegal?
(a) Touch
(b) Sound
(c) Sight
(d) Smell

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

7. How do individuals in Lineland move?
(a) Only right to left.
(b) They can move anywhere.
(c) Only up and down.
(d) In a single directional line.

8. What does A. Square discover about the stranger when he is allowed to feel his body?
(a) The stranger is a straight line.
(b) The stranger has many angles.
(c) The stranger has no angles.
(d) The stranger has no shape.

9. What does the Sphere admit at the end of the chapter?
(a) He was wrong, and has discovered the fourth dimension.
(b) He is really a circle from Flatland.
(c) He was wrong to be angry at A. Square for his questions.
(d) He is only a dream.

10. Upon waking, who does A. Square plan to educate about dimensions?
(a) His daughter
(b) His grandson
(c) The Council
(d) His wife

11. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?
(a) Squares
(b) Women
(c) Triangles
(d) Circles pretending to be women

12. Where does A. Square asked to be taken, after the stranger's explanation of those who believe in the fourth dimension?
(a) Pointland
(b) Thoughtland
(c) Lineland
(d) Higher Spaceland

13. What was A. Square's grandson's reward for his work with sight recognition?
(a) A cookie
(b) Hints in geometry
(c) Money
(d) A song

14. What is A. Square's first question about Spaceland?
(a) Why everything is dark.
(b) Why he cannot see the stranger's insides.
(c) Why he can see the stranger's insides.
(d) Why everything is bright.

15. What does A. Square say about true space?
(a) It is a plane.
(b) It is a circle.
(c) It is a square.
(d) It is a line.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does marriage occur in Lineland?

2. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?

3. How does A. Square attempt to prove he can see in Lineland?

4. How does A. Square next attempt to explain the third dimension?

5. What does the Sphere point out about being self-content?

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