Flatland Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Flatland Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which direction do women enter houses?
(a) East
(b) South
(c) None, as directions don't exist in Flatland
(d) West

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

3. What did Pantocyclus tell the workmen they would have to accept?
(a) Their ambitions for higher classes 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 priesthood would be abolished.

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

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

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

7. What effect did the end of this method have on the classes?
(a) There was no effect.
(b) All classes became closer to equal.
(c) There was a war between the classes.
(d) The classes became further separated.

8. Why does the author call the land he writes about Flatland?
(a) To make it easier for him to write about
(b) Because it is flat
(c) Because that is what locals call it
(d) To make it easier to distinguish for readers

9. What can men do when women are in their apartments?
(a) They can only speak.
(b) Anything, since the woman won't remember it.
(c) Nothing, since they are inaccessible to men.
(d) They can only touch the woman.

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

11. On what does the civilization of Flatland depend?
(a) The State
(b) The lower classes
(c) Regularity of shapes
(d) Irregularity of shapes

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

13. The second law for women is:
(a) They must never make a sound in public.
(b) They must speak when spoken to in public.
(c) They must never be in public.
(d) They must continuously make noise when in public.

14. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?
(a) Move north
(b) Move sideways
(c) Move south
(d) Rise above or beneath the surface

15. Under what name was Flatland originally published?
(a) A. Square
(b) B. Triangle
(c) Edwin Abbott
(d) John Smith

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape of houses is not allowed?

2. What is the editor's defense of the second objection?

3. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?

4. Because of their education, what method of recognition is considered a serious offense?

5. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?

(see the answer keys)

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