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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What army did the Isosceles defeat?
(a) The Circles
(b) The Right Triangles
(c) The Women
(d) The Polygons

2. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
(a) Because if it were, no one would be God.
(b) Because if it were, the criminals of Spaceland would be the Gods of Flatland.
(c) Because if it were, everyone in Flatland would be a God.
(d) Because God's do not exist.

3. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?
(a) Allow her to pass to the West.
(b) Allow her to pass to the North.
(c) Allow her to pass to the South.
(d) Allow her to pass to the East.

4. What does Hoffman say about the first three dimensions?
(a) They are temporal.
(b) They are spatial.
(c) They are unstable.
(d) They are stable.

5. Who is Pantocyclus?
(a) The young woman's father
(b) The Chief Circle
(c) A. Square's father
(d) The leader of the lower class

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "pull" in Flatland represent in Spaceland?

2. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?

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

4. What can men do when women are in their apartments?

5. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?

(see the answer key)

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