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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. Where are readers assumed to live?
(a) Pointland
(b) Earthland
(c) Spaceland
(d) Timeland

2. What bill sought to color women and circles the same?
(a) The Universal Recognition bill
(b) The Universal Color bill
(c) The Spaceland Color bill
(d) The Flatland Sight bill

3. What ended the women's support of the bill?
(a) The attack of a young woman by an Right Triangle pretending to be a higher class shape
(b) The attack of a young woman by a Circle pretending to be a lower class shape
(c) The attack of a young woman by a Square pretending to be a higher class shape
(d) The attack of a young woman by an Isosceles pretending to be a higher class shape.

4. What is the first means of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Touch
(b) Hearing
(c) Sight
(d) Smell

5. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?
(a) Straight lines
(b) Solids
(c) Circles
(d) Triangles and Squares

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape are women?

2. What does A. Square say about the aesthetic and artistic aspects of Flatland?

3. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?

4. On what does the civilization of Flatland depend?

5. What was this movement called?

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