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

2. What does the line claim to be?
(a) The King
(b) The Queen
(c) A Prince
(d) A Priest

3. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?
(a) Equilateral
(b) Pentagons
(c) Circles
(d) Squares

4. What was one benefit to having color?
(a) Being more attractive
(b) A brighter home
(c) More stable relationships
(d) Immediate recognition

5. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?
(a) They breed with one another and give birth to irregulars.
(b) They cannot have children.
(c) They are less intelligent.
(d) They cannot work.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does marriage occur in Lineland?

2. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?

3. How did the Legislature finally stop individuals from trying to find the source of light in Flatland?

4. What is the Law of Compensation?

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

(see the answer key)

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