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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 shape are professional men?
(a) Equilateral or Isosceles triangles
(b) Squares or Pentagons
(c) Hexagons
(d) Circles

2. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?
(a) They see them.
(b) They infer them.
(c) They don't understand angles.
(d) They understand the mathematics behind them.

3. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?
(a) Move south
(b) Move north
(c) Rise above or beneath the surface
(d) Move sideways

4. What does A. Square say about the laws regarding irregulars?
(a) They are for the good of society.
(b) They are unsafe and create problems.
(c) They are brutal and unfair.
(d) They are unlikely to help society.

5. What happened to those who attempted to discover the source of light in Flatland?
(a) They were successful.
(b) They died.
(c) They were arrested.
(d) They went insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?

2. What shape are women?

3. The author notes these individuals have a similar experience in Spaceland that helps explain what things look like in Flatland.

4. What theory had Einstein not yet developed by the time Flatland was published?

5. Who is the editor, in reality, who wrote the Preface?

(see the answer key)

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