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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?
(a) They cannot work.
(b) They breed with one another and give birth to irregulars.
(c) They are less intelligent.
(d) They cannot have children.

3. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?
(a) Literature and physics
(b) Literature and social sciences
(c) Literature and theology
(d) Literature and mathematics

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

5. What is the first means of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Smell
(b) Touch
(c) Sight
(d) Hearing

6. 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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What allows this method to be possible?
(a) Light
(b) Fog
(c) Rain
(d) Snow

13. What shape are the middle class members?
(a) Squares
(b) Equilateral triangles
(c) Straight lines
(d) Isosceles triangles

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?

2. What does A. Square say about the aesthetic and artistic aspects of Flatland?

3. What is irregularity considered in Flatland?

4. To what class does the Law of Nature not always apply?

5. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?

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