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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Each generation is educated in a more superior manner.
(d) They do not; statuses are unchangeable in Flatland.

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

4. After the war, who is still allowed to make color?
(a) The intellectuals
(b) Criminals
(c) Women
(d) The Chief Circle

5. What happens to leaders of rebellions of lower classes who are nearly regular shaped?
(a) They are allowed to live among the lower class to provide hope.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They are reshaped and adopted into higher classes.
(d) They are placed into State Hospitals.

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

7. Where are higher class youths sent for education?
(a) Military schools
(b) State schools
(c) Seminaries
(d) Spaceland

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

9. The third law for women is:
(a) Any female found in public is immediately killed.
(b) Any female with involuntary actions is to be immediately killed.
(c) Any female found to be infertile is immediately killed.
(d) Any female who speaks out against a man is immediately killed.

10. What is customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?
(a) Never speak to their husbands
(b) Never leave their apartments
(c) Face their husbands
(d) Never leave the house

11. What does A. Square say about the aesthetic and artistic aspects of Flatland?
(a) They are similar to that of Spaceland.
(b) They are similar to that of Pointland.
(c) They are vibrant and alive.
(d) They are dull.

12. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?
(a) Allow her to pass to the North.
(b) Allow her to pass to the West.
(c) Allow her to pass to the East.
(d) Allow her to pass to the South.

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

14. What did Pantocyclus tell the workmen they would have to accept?
(a) Their ambitions for military work would be abolished.
(b) Their ambitions for higher classes would be abolished.
(c) Their ambitions for public office would be abolished.
(d) Their ambitions for priesthood would be abolished.

15. What does the editor say is his first reason for writing the preface?
(a) To apologize for errors and misprints
(b) To introduce the novel
(c) To thank readers and critics in Spaceland
(d) To explain misconceptions

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hoffman say about the characters of Flatland?

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

3. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?

4. What can men do when women are in their apartments?

5. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?

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