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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. Where are higher class youths sent for education?
(a) State schools
(b) Spaceland
(c) Military schools
(d) Seminaries

2. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?
(a) Such actions result in higher suicide rates.
(b) Such actions result in the death of more men.
(c) Such actions result in higher birth rates.
(d) Such actions result in the death of more women.

3. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?
(a) Sound
(b) Movement
(c) Space
(d) Time

4. What group showed the most amazing display of color?
(a) The Woman
(b) Circles
(c) The Military
(d) Intellectuals

5. What does Hoffman say about the characters of Flatland?
(a) They are unnecessary.
(b) They are not interesting.
(c) They are well rounded.
(d) They are unbelievable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?

2. To what does the author compare Flatland?

3. What is A. Square's first question about Spaceland?

4. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?

5. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?

(see the answer key)

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