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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 military work would be abolished.
(c) Their ambitions for higher classes would be abolished.
(d) Their ambitions for priesthood would be abolished.

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

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

4. Who was the first person to invent color?
(a) Chromaticon
(b) Chromatistes
(c) Chromoto
(d) Chromatosis

5. In what year was Flatland written?
(a) 1844
(b) 1774
(c) 1884
(d) 1964

Short Answer Questions

1. From which direction do women enter houses?

2. What is the editor's defense of the first objection?

3. What shape of houses is not allowed?

4. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?

5. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?

(see the answer key)

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