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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Concerning Irregular Figures.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?
(a) Allow her to pass to the West.
(b) Allow her to pass to the North.
(c) Allow her to pass to the East.
(d) Allow her to pass to the South.

3. 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) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(c) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.
(d) The book is to be taken literally at all times.

4. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?
(a) Literature and social sciences
(b) Literature and theology
(c) Literature and physics
(d) Literature and mathematics

5. Why is hearing only used on occasion as a recognition method?
(a) Higher classes cannot speak.
(b) Lower classes can imitate higher classes.
(c) All classes sound the same.
(d) Lower classes cannot make sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?

2. What classes are able to use this method?

3. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?

4. To what does the author compare Flatland?

5. What is the third form of recognition in Flatland?

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