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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 does the stranger show A. Square first?
(a) The stranger's home
(b) A. Square's own home
(c) The entire world of Flatland
(d) A true cube

2. What does the author tell the reader to do to mimic Flatland?
(a) Place a penny on a table and look at it at eye level.
(b) Place a penny on a table.
(c) Place a penny on a table and look at it from above.
(d) Place a penny on a table and stand it on one end.

3. Who is Pantocyclus?
(a) The young woman's father
(b) A. Square's father
(c) The leader of the lower class
(d) The Chief Circle

4. What is the Law of Compensation?
(a) The tendency for stronger shapes to be less intelligent, and for weaker shapes to be more intelligent.
(b) The tendency for weaker shapes to be taller, and stronger shapes to be shorter.
(c) The tendency for stronger shapes to be more intelligent, and for weaker shapes to be less intelligent.
(d) The tendency for women to be weak but intelligent, and for men to be strong but less intelligent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is believed to cause deviance?

2. In what year was Flatland written?

3. What is the average perimeter of a circle?

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

5. What happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?

(see the answer key)

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