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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 the middle class members?
(a) Isosceles triangles
(b) Equilateral triangles
(c) Straight lines
(d) Squares

2. 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.

3. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?
(a) Headmaster
(b) Plumber
(c) Mathematician
(d) Writer

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

5. What shape are soldiers?
(a) Isosceles Triangles
(b) Straight lines
(c) Equilateral triangles
(d) Squares

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are readers assumed to live?

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

3. Why were women in support of the bill?

4. Under what name was Flatland originally published?

5. What does A. Square say about the aesthetic and artistic aspects of Flatland?

(see the answer key)

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