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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 Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?
(a) They are looked down upon.
(b) They are taken away and given to Equilateral parents.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are cherished as the highest member of the Isosceles family.

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

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

4. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?
(a) Triangles
(b) Squares
(c) Women
(d) Circles pretending to be women

5. What is the editor's defense of the second objection?
(a) That the author was defending children through irony.
(b) That the author was writing as other historians have written.
(c) That the author was writing his true opinion, and has a right to his opinion.
(d) That the author was pointing out the danger of religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which direction does rain fall?

2. What is the Law of Compensation?

3. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?

4. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?

5. What does the State do with smaller angle specimens used for teaching tools?

(see the answer key)

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