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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 happens to a line as it gets further away in Flatland?
(a) It gets larger.
(b) It gets thinner.
(c) It gets thicker.
(d) It gets smaller.

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 higher suicide rates.
(c) Such actions result in the death of more men.
(d) Such actions result in the death of more women.

3. What is the second means of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Hearing
(b) Smell
(c) Touch
(d) Sight

4. What was Edwin Abbott's field of interest?
(a) Math
(b) Classics
(c) Social Relations
(d) Science

5. What is customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?
(a) Never speak to their husbands
(b) Never leave the house
(c) Never leave their apartments
(d) Face their husbands

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?

2. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?

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

4. What object that helps sight in Spaceland does not exist in Flatland?

5. What does A. Square blame for the inhabitants' inability to discern North in the normal way?

(see the answer key)

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