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

2. What does the editor say is his third reason for writing the preface?
(a) To explain misconceptions
(b) To introduce the novel
(c) To thank readers and critics in Spaceland
(d) To apologize for errors and misprints

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

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

5. What does the editor say is the first objection to the novel?
(a) That distance should be noted in the novel.
(b) That thickness should be noted in the novel.
(c) That weight should be noted in the novel.
(d) That direction should be noted in the novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author compare Flatland?

2. What does A. Square say about the laws regarding irregulars?

3. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?

4. What is the Law of Nature?

5. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?

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