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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, How I Came to Spaceland and What I Saw There.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?
(a) Headmaster
(b) Mathematician
(c) Plumber
(d) Writer

2. What do all inhabitants of Lineland see?
(a) Nothing
(b) A single point
(c) Shapes
(d) Lines and points

3. What can men do when women are in their apartments?
(a) Nothing, since they are inaccessible to men.
(b) They can only touch the woman.
(c) Anything, since the woman won't remember it.
(d) They can only speak.

4. What happens to a man who "runs against" a woman?
(a) He is killed immediately.
(b) He falls in love instantly.
(c) He is put into prison.
(d) He immediately kills her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?

2. What classes are able to use this method?

3. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?

4. What is the most common form of house construction in Flatland?

5. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?

(see the answer key)

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