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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 classes are able to use this method?
(a) Only circles
(b) All classes
(c) Upper classes
(d) Lower classes

2. What did Pantocyclus tell the workmen they would have to accept?
(a) Their ambitions for public office would be abolished.
(b) Their ambitions for higher classes would be abolished.
(c) Their ambitions for military work would be abolished.
(d) Their ambitions for priesthood would be abolished.

3. How many points are on a compass in Flatland?
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) One

4. How does A. Square attempt to prove he can see in Lineland?
(a) By describing a straight line.
(b) By explaining that he can see lines and points.
(c) By describing a circle.
(d) By explaining the number of each sex next to the king.

5. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?
(a) A curved line
(b) An Equilateral triangle
(c) A single point
(d) A straight line

Short Answer Questions

1. What is customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?

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

3. Why are there no windows in houses of Flatland?

4. What does the editor say is the second objection to the novel?

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

(see the answer key)

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