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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. Why is this shape of house not allowed?
(a) The rain would not properly run off, causing death.
(b) The curved exterior would be difficult to discern.
(c) There could be no door for women.
(d) The sharp angle may hurt someone.

2. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?
(a) He is a criminal.
(b) His color changes.
(c) He is a square.
(d) His size and brightness change.

3. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Doctors
(b) Government positions
(c) Tradesmen
(d) Teachers

4. What does A. Square discover about the stranger when he is allowed to feel his body?
(a) The stranger has many angles.
(b) The stranger has no angles.
(c) The stranger has no shape.
(d) The stranger is a straight line.

5. How did the Legislature finally stop individuals from trying to find the source of light in Flatland?
(a) They taxed them until they stopped asking questions.
(b) They sent those who questioned to prison.
(c) They prohibited the question entirely.
(d) They told them the light was from God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape are nobility members?

2. What shape are women?

3. What does the editor say is his first reason for writing the preface?

4. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?

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

(see the answer key)

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