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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 happens to the most irregular shapes?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are allowed into public office.
(c) They are allowed to marry into a higher class.
(d) They are imprisoned.

2. What does A. Square tell his wife has happened?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He says he fell.
(c) He tells her of Spaceland.
(d) He says he was dreaming.

3. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
(b) He drops below Flatland.
(c) He rises above Flatland.
(d) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.

4. What does A. Square say about true space?
(a) It is a circle.
(b) It is a line.
(c) It is a square.
(d) It is a plane.

5. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?
(a) It is easy to confuse a ten-sided shape with a twelve-sided shape.
(b) It is easy to confuse a square with a triangle.
(c) All angles feel the same.
(d) It is easy to confuse Isosceles triangles with Equilateral triangles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?

2. What recognition method is used as a teaching tool by the stranger?

3. What do all inhabitants of Lineland see?

4. What bill sought to color women and circles the same?

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

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