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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 editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?
(a) Not all aspects of Flatland are meant to correspond to Spaceland.
(b) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.
(c) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(d) The book is to be taken literally at all times.

2. From which direction does rain fall?
(a) South
(b) Down
(c) North
(d) Up

3. How do individuals in Lineland move?
(a) Only right to left.
(b) In a single directional line.
(c) They can move anywhere.
(d) Only up and down.

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

5. What happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?
(a) It gets smaller.
(b) It gets thinner.
(c) It gets thicker.
(d) It gets larger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do upper class women do that lower class women try to imitate?

2. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?

3. What happens as the race of circles climbs higher in development?

4. What theory had Einstein not yet developed by the time Flatland was published?

5. Why were women in support of the bill?

(see the answer key)

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