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

2. The second law for women is:
(a) They must never be in public.
(b) They must continuously make noise when in public.
(c) They must speak when spoken to in public.
(d) They must never make a sound in public.

3. What object that helps sight in Spaceland does not exist in Flatland?
(a) Sun
(b) Glasses
(c) Eyes
(d) Darkness

4. How do families rise in standing?
(a) They do not; statuses are unchangeable in Flatland.
(b) Each generation is educated in a more superior manner.
(c) Each generation is born with one new side.
(d) Each generation is born with one less side.

5. What happens to the trade man in the author's example of problems with irregular shapes?
(a) He is stuck in a doorway.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is unable to move.
(d) He is put into prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the State do with smaller angle specimens used for teaching tools?

2. What group showed the most amazing display of color?

3. What allows this method to be possible?

4. What was Edwin Abbott's field of interest?

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

(see the answer key)

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