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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because of their education, what method of recognition is considered a serious offense?
(a) Hearing
(b) Sight
(c) Feeling
(d) Smell

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

3. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?
(a) Headmaster
(b) Mathematician
(c) Writer
(d) Plumber

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

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

6. 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

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

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

9. The first law for women is;
(a) They must enter houses on the East side.
(b) They must enter houses on the North side.
(c) They must enter houses on the West side.
(d) They must enter houses on the South side.

10. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?
(a) Triangles
(b) Squares
(c) Straight lines
(d) Circles

11. What is irregularity considered in Flatland?
(a) Immoral and criminal
(b) A character flaw
(c) A way to achieve a higher class
(d) A rarity to be praised

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

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

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

15. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?
(a) They can change into other forms.
(b) They can see further than any other form.
(c) They can make themselves invisible.
(d) They can move very quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory had Einstein not yet developed by the time Flatland was published?

2. What group showed the most amazing display of color?

3. What shape are nobility members?

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

5. What shape are soldiers?

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