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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 do individuals in Lineland move?
(a) They can move anywhere.
(b) In a single directional line.
(c) Only right to left.
(d) Only up and down.

2. What is the primary focus of priests?
(a) Raise a family.
(b) Attend to their configuration.
(c) Attend higher education.
(d) Become involved in government.

3. What is A. Square's first question about Spaceland?
(a) Why he can see the stranger's insides.
(b) Why everything is dark.
(c) Why everything is bright.
(d) Why he cannot see the stranger's insides.

4. What shape does the stranger use to teach about solids?
(a) A triangle
(b) A straight line
(c) A sphere
(d) A cube

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A. Square do at the end of the chapter?

2. In Spaceland, what is valued highest: intellect, emotion, money, or faith?

3. What begins at the end of the chapter?

4. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?

5. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. What method does A. Square next attempt to use to describe the Fourth Dimension? Why does he find it difficult?

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

4. How does the Circle attempt to prove in Chapter 17 to A. Square he is telling the truth? Why is this nearly convincing?

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

6. Explain the shapes of Lineland in Chapter 13, and their existence in terms of movement and marriage.

7. Explain A. Square's login that a Fourth dimension must exist.

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

9. 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?

10. Explain the primary focus of Circles in Chapter 12, and the reasoning behind that focus.

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