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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 happens to the most irregular shapes?
(a) They are allowed to marry into a higher class.
(b) They are imprisoned.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are allowed into public office.

2. What shape are women?
(a) Equilateral triangles
(b) Straight lines
(c) Circles
(d) Squares

3. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?
(a) He will take him to Spaceland.
(b) He will kill him.
(c) He will take him to Lineland.
(d) He will take him to Pointland.

4. From which direction do women enter houses?
(a) None, as directions don't exist in Flatland
(b) East
(c) South
(d) West

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The first law for women is;

3. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?

4. How does marriage occur in Lineland?

5. What does Hoffman say about the characters of Flatland?

(see the answer key)

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