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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 do inhabitants of Flatland see?
(a) Circles
(b) Solids
(c) Triangles and Squares
(d) Straight lines

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

3. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?
(a) All angles feel the same.
(b) It is easy to confuse a ten-sided shape with a twelve-sided shape.
(c) It is easy to confuse a square with a triangle.
(d) It is easy to confuse Isosceles triangles with Equilateral triangles.

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

5. Because of their education, what method of recognition is considered a serious offense?
(a) Feeling
(b) Sight
(c) Smell
(d) Hearing

Short Answer Questions

1. What classes are able to use this method?

2. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?

3. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?

4. What method of recognition was no longer taught?

5. Who is the editor, in reality, who wrote the Preface?

(see the answer key)

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