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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 did Pantocyclus tell the workmen they would have to accept?
(a) Their ambitions for public office would be abolished.
(b) Their ambitions for higher classes would be abolished.
(c) Their ambitions for military work would be abolished.
(d) Their ambitions for priesthood would be abolished.

2. What shape are the middle class members?
(a) Equilateral triangles
(b) Squares
(c) Straight lines
(d) Isosceles triangles

3. What allows this method to be possible?
(a) Snow
(b) Fog
(c) Rain
(d) Light

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

5. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?
(a) Such actions result in the death of more women.
(b) Such actions result in higher suicide rates.
(c) Such actions result in higher birth rates.
(d) Such actions result in the death of more men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?

2. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?

3. Because of their education, what method of recognition is considered a serious offense?

4. What is the primary focus of priests?

5. What happens to the trade man in the author's example of problems with irregular shapes?

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