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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, How I Came to Spaceland and What I Saw There.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What fear does the stranger have as A. Square calls for help?
(a) The others will imprison him.
(b) That others will see the Third Dimension.
(c) The others will not believe him.
(d) The others will kill him.

3. Who is Pantocyclus?
(a) A. Square's father
(b) The young woman's father
(c) The leader of the lower class
(d) The Chief Circle

4. What does A. Square do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Attacks the stranger.
(b) Leaves the room.
(c) Understands the lesson.
(d) Cries.

5. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?
(a) Not all aspects of Flatland are meant to correspond to Spaceland.
(b) The book is to be taken literally at all times.
(c) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(d) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?

2. What does the shape of women prevent?

3. What happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?

4. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?

5. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

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