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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was this movement called?
(a) The Color War
(b) The Color Revolt
(c) The Color Age
(d) The Color Generation
2. What allows this method to be possible?
(a) Snow
(b) Fog
(c) Light
(d) Rain
3. What did Pantocyclus tell the workmen they would have to accept?
(a) Their ambitions for public office would be abolished.
(b) Their ambitions for military work would be abolished.
(c) Their ambitions for higher classes would be abolished.
(d) Their ambitions for priesthood would be abolished.
4. What does the shape of women prevent?
(a) Walking
(b) Swimming
(c) Spontaneous passion
(d) Childbirth
5. What is irregularity considered in Flatland?
(a) A character flaw
(b) Immoral and criminal
(c) A way to achieve a higher class
(d) A rarity to be praised
6. To what class does the Law of Nature not always apply?
(a) The Tradesmen
(b) The Priests
(c) The Middle Class
(d) The Professionals
7. 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 weaker shapes to be taller, and stronger shapes to be shorter.
(c) The tendency for women to be weak but intelligent, and for men to be strong but less intelligent.
(d) The tendency for stronger shapes to be less intelligent, and for weaker shapes to be more intelligent.
8. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is temporal.
(b) It is stable.
(c) It is unstable.
(d) It is spatial.
9. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?
(a) The book is to be taken literally at all times.
(b) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(c) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.
(d) Not all aspects of Flatland are meant to correspond to Spaceland.
10. What shape are nobility members?
(a) Circles
(b) Squares
(c) Straight lines
(d) Hexagons
11. What group showed the most amazing display of color?
(a) The Military
(b) Intellectuals
(c) Circles
(d) The Woman
12. Because of their education, what method of recognition is considered a serious offense?
(a) Feeling
(b) Sight
(c) Hearing
(d) Smell
13. What does A. Square blame for the inhabitants' inability to discern North in the normal way?
(a) Lack of compasses
(b) Lack of a sun
(c) Lack of sight
(d) Lack of a sense of direction
14. Who is Pantocyclus?
(a) A. Square's father
(b) The leader of the lower class
(c) The Chief Circle
(d) The young woman's father
15. What shape are professional men?
(a) Hexagons
(b) Circles
(c) Squares or Pentagons
(d) Equilateral or Isosceles triangles
Short Answer Questions
1. What was one benefit to having color?
2. What does A. Square say about the laws regarding irregulars?
3. What two body parts are the same on a woman?
4. The third law for women is:
5. What happens to the trade man in the author's example of problems with irregular shapes?
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