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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 sun
(b) Lack of a sense of direction
(c) Lack of sight
(d) Lack of compasses

2. What is the most common form of house construction in Flatland?
(a) Circle
(b) Triangle
(c) Pentagon
(d) Square

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

4. What was this movement called?
(a) The Color War
(b) The Color Revolt
(c) The Color Age
(d) The Color Generation

5. Who is the editor, in reality, who wrote the Preface?
(a) Banesh Hoffman
(b) Edward Abbott
(c) A. Square
(d) Paul Kennedy

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

7. What shape are professional men?
(a) Squares or Pentagons
(b) Circles
(c) Hexagons
(d) Equilateral or Isosceles triangles

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

9. What does the author tell the reader to do to mimic Flatland?
(a) Place a penny on a table and look at it from above.
(b) Place a penny on a table and stand it on one end.
(c) Place a penny on a table and look at it at eye level.
(d) Place a penny on a table.

10. The first law for women is;
(a) They must enter houses on the West side.
(b) They must enter houses on the South side.
(c) They must enter houses on the North side.
(d) They must enter houses on the East side.

11. What does the shape of women prevent?
(a) Swimming
(b) Childbirth
(c) Walking
(d) Spontaneous passion

12. How long did the color movement continue?
(a) Four years
(b) Three years
(c) Two years
(d) One year

13. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Government positions
(b) Teachers
(c) Tradesmen
(d) Doctors

14. What is irregularity considered in Flatland?
(a) A way to achieve a higher class
(b) A rarity to be praised
(c) Immoral and criminal
(d) A character flaw

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first means of recognition in Flatland?

2. Where are higher class youths sent for education?

3. What does the editor say is his third reason for writing the preface?

4. After the war, who is still allowed to make color?

5. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?

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