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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 recognition method is used as a teaching tool by the stranger?
(a) Touch
(b) Hearing
(c) Sight
(d) Smell

2. What object that helps sight in Spaceland does not exist in Flatland?
(a) Darkness
(b) Eyes
(c) Glasses
(d) Sun

3. What does the stranger show A. Square first?
(a) A true cube
(b) A. Square's own home
(c) The entire world of Flatland
(d) The stranger's home

4. What is the Law of Nature?
(a) The tendency for any shape out of the ordinary to be killed.
(b) The tendency for each generation to remain stable over time.
(c) The tendency for each generation to drop in standing.
(d) The tendency for each generation to rise in standing.

5. What did Pantocyclus tell the workmen they would have to accept?
(a) Their ambitions for military work would be abolished.
(b) Their ambitions for priesthood would be abolished.
(c) Their ambitions for higher classes would be abolished.
(d) Their ambitions for public office would be abolished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A. Square say about the laws regarding irregulars?

2. What begins at the end of the chapter?

3. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?

4. What happened to those who attempted to discover the source of light in Flatland?

5. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?

(see the answer key)

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