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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. From which direction do women enter houses?
(a) West
(b) None, as directions don't exist in Flatland
(c) East
(d) South

2. Why is hearing only used on occasion as a recognition method?
(a) Higher classes cannot speak.
(b) All classes sound the same.
(c) Lower classes cannot make sounds.
(d) Lower classes can imitate higher classes.

3. What shape of houses is not allowed?
(a) Pentagon
(b) Circle
(c) Triangle
(d) Oval

4. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?
(a) They are looked down upon.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They are taken away and given to Equilateral parents.
(d) They are cherished as the highest member of the Isosceles family.

5. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Teachers
(b) Doctors
(c) Tradesmen
(d) Government positions

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?

2. What is the first means of recognition in Flatland?

3. What happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?

4. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?

5. To what class does the Law of Nature not always apply?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What tools do inhabitants use to discern direction in Flatland?

3. What are some of the characteristics of women in Chapter 5?

4. What occurred when individuals began to question where light came from?

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

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

7. Name some features of the houses of Flatland.

8. How does A. Square explain the lack of ability to discern changes in retraction or projection in Chapter 1?

9. Summarize A. Square's explanation of Flatland.

10. What appears to be the reasoning behind the need for the preface of this novel?

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