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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 does the "pull" in Flatland represent in Spaceland?
(a) Gravity
(b) Emotional patterns
(c) Magnetic force
(d) Wind

2. What does A. Square discover about the stranger when he is allowed to feel his body?
(a) The stranger has no shape.
(b) The stranger is a straight line.
(c) The stranger has many angles.
(d) The stranger has no angles.

3. What shape are the middle class members?
(a) Straight lines
(b) Isosceles triangles
(c) Equilateral triangles
(d) Squares

4. What happens to a line as it gets further away in Flatland?
(a) It gets larger.
(b) It gets smaller.
(c) It gets thinner.
(d) It gets thicker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?

2. What do circles do to their young?

3. Why does the author call the land he writes about Flatland?

4. What does the Sphere point out about being self-content?

5. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?

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