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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class does the Equilateral triangle represent?
(a) Tradesmen
(b) Priest
(c) Woman
(d) Worker

2. What shape are soldiers?
(a) Isosceles Triangles
(b) Squares
(c) Straight lines
(d) Equilateral triangles

3. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?
(a) Boredom
(b) Critics
(c) Space
(d) Time

4. How many points are on a compass in Flatland?
(a) Five
(b) One
(c) Four
(d) Two

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

6. Who is Pantocyclus?
(a) A. Square's father
(b) The young woman's father
(c) The Chief Circle
(d) The leader of the lower class

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

8. Who was the first person to invent color?
(a) Chromatistes
(b) Chromatosis
(c) Chromaticon
(d) Chromoto

9. What theory had Einstein not yet developed by the time Flatland was published?
(a) The theory of relativity
(b) The theory of movement
(c) The theory of the fourth dimension
(d) The theory of time and space

10. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?
(a) They have three pointed sides.
(b) They are very strong.
(c) They are pointed on both ends.
(d) They are very smart.

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

12. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?
(a) To apologize for errors and misprints
(b) To thank readers and critics in Spaceland
(c) To explain misconceptions
(d) To introduce the novel

13. Because of their education, what method of recognition is considered a serious offense?
(a) Smell
(b) Sight
(c) Feeling
(d) Hearing

14. How do families rise in standing?
(a) Each generation is educated in a more superior manner.
(b) Each generation is born with one new side.
(c) They do not; statuses are unchangeable in Flatland.
(d) Each generation is born with one less side.

15. What shape of houses is not allowed?
(a) Triangle
(b) Pentagon
(c) Oval
(d) Circle

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are there no windows in houses of Flatland?

2. What does the shape of women prevent?

3. What does the "pull" in Flatland represent in Spaceland?

4. Who is the editor, in reality, who wrote the Preface?

5. Within how many generations did nearly everyone adopt color?

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