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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the editor's defense of the first objection?
(a) That since thickness cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(b) That since weight cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(c) That since distance cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(d) That since direction cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.

2. What can men do when women are in their apartments?
(a) Anything, since the woman won't remember it.
(b) Nothing, since they are inaccessible to men.
(c) They can only speak.
(d) They can only touch the woman.

3. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?
(a) They infer them.
(b) They see them.
(c) They understand the mathematics behind them.
(d) They don't understand angles.

4. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?
(a) To explain misconceptions
(b) To introduce the novel
(c) To thank readers and critics in Spaceland
(d) To apologize for errors and misprints

5. What does the State do with smaller angle specimens used for teaching tools?
(a) They are dissected.
(b) They are paid well.
(c) They are not fed, and thus killed.
(d) They are used as food for higher angle specimens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object that helps sight in Spaceland does not exist in Flatland?

2. Why is hearing only used on occasion as a recognition method?

3. What class does the Equilateral triangle represent?

4. Why does the author call the land he writes about Flatland?

5. What does the "pull" in Flatland represent in Spaceland?

(see the answer key)

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