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

2. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is temporal.
(b) It is unstable.
(c) It is spatial.
(d) It is stable.

3. What ended the women's support of the bill?
(a) The attack of a young woman by a Circle pretending to be a lower class shape
(b) The attack of a young woman by a Square pretending to be a higher class shape
(c) The attack of a young woman by an Isosceles pretending to be a higher class shape.
(d) The attack of a young woman by an Right Triangle pretending to be a higher class shape

4. What adverse effect did the new wave of color have?
(a) There was a decline in reproduction.
(b) There was an increase in mortality rates.
(c) There was an increase in crime.
(d) There was a decline in intellectual pursuit.

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

6. What was Edwin Abbott's field of interest?
(a) Science
(b) Classics
(c) Math
(d) Social Relations

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

8. What happens to the trade man in the author's example of problems with irregular shapes?
(a) He is stuck in a doorway.
(b) He is unable to move.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is put into prison.

9. What method of recognition was no longer taught?
(a) Touch
(b) Smell
(c) Hearing
(d) Sight

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

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

12. What does the State do with smaller angle specimens used for teaching tools?
(a) They are dissected.
(b) They are paid well.
(c) They are used as food for higher angle specimens.
(d) They are not fed, and thus killed.

13. What is the Law of Nature?
(a) The tendency for any shape out of the ordinary to be killed.
(b) The tendency for each generation to drop in standing.
(c) The tendency for each generation to remain stable over time.
(d) The tendency for each generation to rise in standing.

14. Why is this shape of house not allowed?
(a) The curved exterior would be difficult to discern.
(b) There could be no door for women.
(c) The sharp angle may hurt someone.
(d) The rain would not properly run off, causing death.

15. What does the editor say is the second objection to the novel?
(a) That the author hates women.
(b) That the author hates children.
(c) That the author hates men.
(d) That the author hates priests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?

2. How was the bill going to destroy the aristocracy?

3. Who was the first person to invent color?

4. What is the third form of recognition in Flatland?

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

(see the answer keys)

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