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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 A. Square fear about this lack of training?
(a) The result will be more accidents in the home.
(b) The result will be a lesser male intellect.
(c) The result will be a lack of communication.
(d) The result will be more public accidents.

2. What is the Law of Nature?
(a) The tendency for each generation to rise in standing.
(b) The tendency for each generation to drop in standing.
(c) The tendency for each generation to remain stable over time.
(d) The tendency for any shape out of the ordinary to be killed.

3. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Teachers
(b) Government positions
(c) Doctors
(d) Tradesmen

4. What is the second means of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Touch
(b) Hearing
(c) Sight
(d) Smell

5. Where are readers assumed to live?
(a) Timeland
(b) Spaceland
(c) Earthland
(d) Pointland

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?

3. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?

4. What happens to the most irregular shapes?

5. What does the line claim to be?

(see the answer key)

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