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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 is a circle in Flatland?
(a) A polygon with many sides
(b) A term for anyone higher than a triangle
(c) A true circle, with no sides
(d) A term for anyone higher than a woman

2. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?
(a) Disrespecting his grandson
(b) Disrespecting the Chief Circle
(c) Disrespecting himself
(d) Disrespecting her

3. What was this movement called?
(a) The Color War
(b) The Color Age
(c) The Color Revolt
(d) The Color Generation

4. Because of their education, what method of recognition is considered a serious offense?
(a) Feeling
(b) Smell
(c) Sight
(d) Hearing

5. Where does A. Square first see Lineland?
(a) In his reflection
(b) In a movie
(c) In a book
(d) In a dream

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?

2. What does A. Square point out about the King's space?

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

4. What happens to a man who "runs against" a woman?

5. What is the editor's defense of the second objection?

(see the answer key)

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