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

2. What shape are women?
(a) Straight lines
(b) Circles
(c) Squares
(d) Equilateral triangles

3. Why is hearing only used on occasion as a recognition method?
(a) All classes sound the same.
(b) Higher classes cannot speak.
(c) Lower classes cannot make sounds.
(d) Lower classes can imitate higher classes.

4. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?
(a) They are looked down upon.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They are cherished as the highest member of the Isosceles family.
(d) They are taken away and given to Equilateral parents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Flatland written?

2. What happens to a line as it gets further away in Flatland?

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

4. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?

5. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?

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