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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Concerning the Woman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Law of Nature?
(a) The tendency for each generation to drop in standing.
(b) The tendency for each generation to rise in standing.
(c) The tendency for any shape out of the ordinary to be killed.
(d) The tendency for each generation to remain stable over time.

2. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?
(a) Such actions result in higher birth rates.
(b) Such actions result in the death of more women.
(c) Such actions result in the death of more men.
(d) Such actions result in higher suicide rates.

3. What does Hoffman say about the first three dimensions?
(a) They are stable.
(b) They are spatial.
(c) They are temporal.
(d) They are unstable.

4. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?
(a) Boredom
(b) Critics
(c) Space
(d) Time

5. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?
(a) The author's presentation of Squares
(b) The author's presentation of Pentagons
(c) The author's presentation of Triangles
(d) The author's presentation of Circles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "pull" in Flatland represent in Spaceland?

2. What does Hoffman say about the characters of Flatland?

3. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?

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

5. What shape of houses is not allowed?

(see the answer key)

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