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

2. What does the line claim to be?
(a) A Prince
(b) A Priest
(c) The Queen
(d) The King

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

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

5. What does A. Square do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Leaves the room.
(b) Cries.
(c) Attacks the stranger.
(d) Understands the lesson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?

2. What is A. Square's first question about Spaceland?

3. What do circles do to their young?

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

5. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Sphere throw A. Square from Spaceland at the end of Chapter 19? Who does Sphere remind you of at this point, and why?

2. Explain the only recognition method used in Flatland, and why touch and sight are not used.

3. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

4. Explain why A. Square chooses his grandson to be the student for his lesson about the Fourth Dimension, and why he doesn't choose another student.

5. The Circle attempts to use an analogy to explain three dimensional space to A. Square in Chapter 16. Summarize this analogy.

6. Describe what happens that leads to the imprisonment of A. Square.

7. Explain A. Square's argument that he is now God, and Sphere's rebuttal in Chapter 18.

8. What situation leads to the taking of A. Square into Spaceland at the end of Chapter 17?

9. What does the grandson hear outside the window in Chapter 21? Why does he become afraid? What does this fear cause him to reject?

10. What does A. Square's wife do to the Circle at the end of the chapter? Why does she become afraid and embarrassed?

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