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

2. What two body parts are the same on a woman?
(a) The eye and the mouth
(b) The eye and the hand
(c) The mouth and the hand
(d) The nose and the mouth

3. The author notes these individuals have a similar experience in Spaceland that helps explain what things look like in Flatland.
(a) Tight rope walkers
(b) Writers
(c) Mechanics
(d) Sailors

4. From which direction do women enter houses?
(a) None, as directions don't exist in Flatland
(b) West
(c) South
(d) East

5. What happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?
(a) It gets larger.
(b) It gets smaller.
(c) It gets thicker.
(d) It gets thinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?

2. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?

3. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?

4. What is the editor's defense of the first objection?

5. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?

(see the answer key)

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