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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. Upon waking, who does A. Square plan to educate about dimensions?
(a) The Council
(b) His wife
(c) His daughter
(d) His grandson

2. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?
(a) Squares
(b) Straight lines
(c) Triangles
(d) Circles

3. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?
(a) They can move very quickly.
(b) They can see further than any other form.
(c) They can change into other forms.
(d) They can make themselves invisible.

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

5. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?
(a) Touch
(b) Smell
(c) Sound
(d) Sight

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one benefit to having color?

2. According to Hoffman, what is the goal of the novel?

3. What is the average perimeter of a circle?

4. What does A. Square say about true space?

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

(see the answer key)

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