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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 the author tell the reader to do to mimic Flatland?
(a) Place a penny on a table and look at it at eye level.
(b) Place a penny on a table.
(c) Place a penny on a table and stand it on one end.
(d) Place a penny on a table and look at it from above.

2. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?
(a) A single point
(b) A curved line
(c) A straight line
(d) An Equilateral triangle

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

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

5. What shape are nobility members?
(a) Squares
(b) Hexagons
(c) Straight lines
(d) Circles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A. Square say about true space?

2. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?

3. Under what name was Flatland originally published?

4. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?

5. To what class does the Law of Nature not always apply?

(see the answer key)

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