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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Of the Universal Color Bill.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What bill sought to color women and circles the same?
(a) The Universal Color bill
(b) The Universal Recognition bill
(c) The Spaceland Color bill
(d) The Flatland Sight bill

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

5. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?
(a) They are less intelligent.
(b) They breed with one another and give birth to irregulars.
(c) They cannot work.
(d) They cannot have children.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was one benefit to having color?

4. What is the second means of recognition in Flatland?

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

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