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

2. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He is afraid of imprisonment.
(b) He is afraid of divorce.
(c) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.
(d) He realizes women are too dim to understand.

3. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?
(a) Infinite
(b) Fifty
(c) One
(d) Two

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

5. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?
(a) Pentagons
(b) Squares
(c) Equilateral
(d) Circles

6. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?
(a) The voice of the Sphere
(b) The voice of God
(c) His own
(d) Nothing, since he doesn't hear it

7. Why does A. Square become saddened?
(a) He realizes he is a two dimensional object.
(b) He cannot visualize a sphere.
(c) He cannot visualize a cube.
(d) His wife dies.

8. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) Writes the situation out mathematically.
(b) Rises above Flatland.
(c) Removes a tablet from a cupboard without opening the door.
(d) Removes dishes from the sink.

9. What begins at the end of the chapter?
(a) The third millennium
(b) The first millennium
(c) The second millennium
(d) The fourth millennium

10. How does A. Square attack the stranger?
(a) With his hands
(b) With a gun
(c) With a knife
(d) With his hardest right angle

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

12. What do circles do to their young?
(a) Prepare them for higher education.
(b) Place them in boarding schools.
(c) Break their frame to reshape them with fewer sides.
(d) Break their frame to reshape them with more sides.

13. What does the Sphere point out about being self-content?
(a) It equals stupidity.
(b) It equals happiness.
(c) It equals strength.
(d) It equals ignorance.

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

15. How does A. Square know he is to be punished for his views?
(a) The Council substitutes smaller angled soldiers to oversee proceedings.
(b) His brother informs him.
(c) He sees his wife being taken away.
(d) His children are removed from the home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?

2. Where does A. Square first see Lineland?

3. What is a circle in Flatland?

4. What does A. Square say about true space?

5. What directions are A. Square unable to grasp?

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