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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 method of recognition was no longer taught?
(a) Sight
(b) Touch
(c) Hearing
(d) Smell

2. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?
(a) The author's presentation of Triangles
(b) The author's presentation of Squares
(c) The author's presentation of Pentagons
(d) The author's presentation of Circles

3. Who controls Flatland?
(a) The Women
(b) The Priests
(c) The Men
(d) All individuals equally

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

5. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?
(a) Kills or imprisons them.
(b) Ignores them.
(c) Asks them to teach in schools.
(d) Banishes them from Flatland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is hearing only used on occasion as a recognition method?

2. What is the result of the lesson?

3. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

4. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?

5. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?

(see the answer key)

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