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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do all inhabitants of Lineland see?
(a) Nothing
(b) Shapes
(c) A single point
(d) Lines and points

2. Who does A. Square decide is fit for his lesson?
(a) His daughter
(b) His son
(c) The Council
(d) His grandson

3. What does A. Square ask for that he cannot be shown?
(a) The insides of his teacher
(b) The source of rain in Spaceland
(c) The source of light in Flatland
(d) The home of the stranger

4. What is the second deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He drops below Flatland to describe the ground.
(b) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
(c) He rises above Flatland to describe neighboring occurrences.
(d) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.

5. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?
(a) The result will be a lack of communication.
(b) The result will be more accidents in the home.
(c) The result will be a lesser male intellect.
(d) The result will be more public accidents.

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

7. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?
(a) He will take him to Lineland.
(b) He will take him to Spaceland.
(c) He will kill him.
(d) He will take him to Pointland.

8. What is the average perimeter of a circle?
(a) Three feet
(b) Five feet
(c) Two feet
(d) Twenty feet

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

10. What shape does the grandson almost grasp?
(a) A line
(b) A triangle
(c) A circle
(d) A cube

11. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?
(a) His color changes.
(b) He is a square.
(c) His size and brightness change.
(d) He is a criminal.

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

13. What is the final fate for A. Square?
(a) He is imprisoned for life.
(b) He is committed to an asylum.
(c) He is banished from the town.
(d) He is killed.

14. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He drops below Flatland.
(b) He rises above Flatland.
(c) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(d) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.

15. In Spaceland, what is valued highest: intellect, emotion, money, or faith?
(a) Emotion
(b) Intellect
(c) Money
(d) Faith

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the stranger say about the fourth dimension?

2. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

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

4. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?

5. What does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?

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