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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 customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?
(a) Never speak to their husbands
(b) Face their husbands
(c) Never leave their apartments
(d) Never leave the house

2. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?
(a) Allow her to pass to the North.
(b) Allow her to pass to the East.
(c) Allow her to pass to the West.
(d) Allow her to pass to the South.

3. What is the most common form of house construction in Flatland?
(a) Square
(b) Circle
(c) Pentagon
(d) Triangle

4. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?
(a) Move sideways
(b) Rise above or beneath the surface
(c) Move north
(d) Move south

5. What does the author tell the reader to do to mimic Flatland?
(a) Place a penny on a table and stand it on one end.
(b) Place a penny on a table.
(c) Place a penny on a table and look at it from above.
(d) Place a penny on a table and look at it at eye level.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?

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

3. The author notes these individuals have a similar experience in Spaceland that helps explain what things look like in Flatland.

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

5. Where are readers assumed to live?

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