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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 dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?
(a) The Fourth dimension
(b) The First dimension
(c) The Second dimension
(d) The Third dimension
2. Upon waking, who does A. Square plan to educate about dimensions?
(a) His grandson
(b) His wife
(c) The Council
(d) His daughter
3. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?
(a) The result will be more public accidents.
(b) The result will be a lack of communication.
(c) The result will be more accidents in the home.
(d) The result will be a lesser male intellect.
4. What is the second deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He rises above Flatland to describe neighboring occurrences.
(b) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(c) He drops below Flatland to describe the ground.
(d) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
5. What is the average perimeter of a circle?
(a) Three feet
(b) Two feet
(c) Twenty feet
(d) Five feet
Short Answer Questions
1. What method of recognition is considered illegal?
2. What is the result of the lesson?
3. How does marriage occur in Lineland?
4. Who controls Flatland?
5. What begins at the end of the chapter?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does A. Square's wife do to the Circle at the end of the chapter? Why does she become afraid and embarrassed?
2. What does the grandson hear outside the window in Chapter 21? Why does he become afraid? What does this fear cause him to reject?
3. How does the Circle attempt to prove in Chapter 17 to A. Square he is telling the truth? Why is this nearly convincing?
4. What methods does A. Square use to attempt to explain two dimensional space? Summarize the information he explains to the King.
5. Summarize the scene A. Square sees at the General Assembly Hall of the States of Flatland, and what Sphere does at the end of Chapter 18.
6. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.
7. Explain the primary focus of Circles in Chapter 12, and the reasoning behind that focus.
8. Describe what happens that leads to the imprisonment of A. Square.
9. Explain why A. Square had to be sure to be in a certain position in order to speak to the King of Lineland. What would the King have experienced if A. Square had not done this?
10. Explain the only recognition method used in Flatland, and why touch and sight are not used.
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