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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the most irregular shapes?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are allowed to marry into a higher class.
(c) They are imprisoned.
(d) They are allowed into public office.

2. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?
(a) It is easy to confuse a ten-sided shape with a twelve-sided shape.
(b) All angles feel the same.
(c) It is easy to confuse a square with a triangle.
(d) It is easy to confuse Isosceles triangles with Equilateral triangles.

3. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?
(a) Movement
(b) Time
(c) Space
(d) Sound

4. Under what name was Flatland originally published?
(a) John Smith
(b) B. Triangle
(c) Edwin Abbott
(d) A. Square

5. The author notes these individuals have a similar experience in Spaceland that helps explain what things look like in Flatland.
(a) Mechanics
(b) Writers
(c) Tight rope walkers
(d) Sailors

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hoffman, what is the goal of the novel?

2. What do circles do to their young?

3. After the war, who is still allowed to make color?

4. How is the regularity of women monitored?

5. Why does the author call the land he writes about Flatland?

(see the answer key)

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