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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect did the end of this method have on the classes?
(a) There was no effect.
(b) There was a war between the classes.
(c) All classes became closer to equal.
(d) The classes became further separated.

2. What class does the Equilateral triangle represent?
(a) Priest
(b) Tradesmen
(c) Worker
(d) Woman

3. Under what name was Flatland originally published?
(a) John Smith
(b) Edwin Abbott
(c) A. Square
(d) B. Triangle

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

5. Who was the first person to invent color?
(a) Chromatosis
(b) Chromoto
(c) Chromaticon
(d) Chromatistes

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most common form of house construction in Flatland?

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

3. What does the author tell the reader to do to mimic Flatland?

4. How did the Legislature finally stop individuals from trying to find the source of light in Flatland?

5. What army did the Isosceles defeat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the overall shape of a woman in Flatland, and why such a shape is detrimental?

2. In Chapter 1, what does A. Square compare sight in Flatland to in the three dimensional world, Spaceland, and what is the comparison?

3. What happened when the Circles regained power following defeat of the color bill? Please be specific.

4. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?

5. Explain how sight recognition is used in upper classes, and why such a method cannot be used for the lower class.

6. What caused women to turn against the color bill?

7. Name some features of the houses of Flatland.

8. Explain the shape of workmen and soldiers, women, the middle class, the professionals, and noblemen, or priests.

9. Why does Hoffman believe the development of the fourth dimension does not lessen the lessons of the book?

10. What is the law of nature that helps protect the upper class? Which law of nature do Circles use to help stifle agitation?

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