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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does A. Square blame for the inhabitants' inability to discern North in the normal way?
(a) Lack of a sense of direction
(b) Lack of compasses
(c) Lack of a sun
(d) Lack of sight

2. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?
(a) Time
(b) Movement
(c) Space
(d) Sound

3. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?
(a) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(b) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.
(c) Not all aspects of Flatland are meant to correspond to Spaceland.
(d) The book is to be taken literally at all times.

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

5. What does the editor say is the second objection to the novel?
(a) That the author hates children.
(b) That the author hates priests.
(c) That the author hates women.
(d) That the author hates men.

6. What is the Law of Compensation?
(a) The tendency for stronger shapes to be more intelligent, and for weaker shapes to be less intelligent.
(b) The tendency for women to be weak but intelligent, and for men to be strong but less intelligent.
(c) The tendency for weaker shapes to be taller, and stronger shapes to be shorter.
(d) The tendency for stronger shapes to be less intelligent, and for weaker shapes to be more intelligent.

7. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?
(a) An Equilateral triangle
(b) A straight line
(c) A curved line
(d) A single point

8. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is temporal.
(b) It is spatial.
(c) It is unstable.
(d) It is stable.

9. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are looked down upon.
(c) They are taken away and given to Equilateral parents.
(d) They are cherished as the highest member of the Isosceles family.

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

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

12. What method of recognition was no longer taught?
(a) Smell
(b) Sight
(c) Touch
(d) Hearing

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

14. What does A. Square say about the laws regarding irregulars?
(a) They are brutal and unfair.
(b) They are unlikely to help society.
(c) They are unsafe and create problems.
(d) They are for the good of society.

15. What does the editor say is the first objection to the novel?
(a) That distance should be noted in the novel.
(b) That direction should be noted in the novel.
(c) That thickness should be noted in the novel.
(d) That weight should be noted in the novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?

2. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?

3. What effect did the end of this method have on the classes?

4. What shape are the middle class members?

5. What army did the Isosceles defeat?

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