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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To what does the author compare Flatland?
(a) A globe
(b) A book
(c) A piece of paper
(d) Sandpaper
2. In what year was Flatland written?
(a) 1884
(b) 1964
(c) 1844
(d) 1774
3. How many points are on a compass in Flatland?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Five
(d) Four
4. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?
(a) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.
(b) The book is to be taken literally at all times.
(c) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(d) Not all aspects of Flatland are meant to correspond to Spaceland.
5. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?
(a) The author's presentation of Squares
(b) The author's presentation of Triangles
(c) The author's presentation of Circles
(d) The author's presentation of Pentagons
6. What is the second means of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Touch
(b) Sight
(c) Smell
(d) Hearing
7. What object that helps sight in Spaceland does not exist in Flatland?
(a) Eyes
(b) Darkness
(c) Glasses
(d) Sun
8. According to Hoffman, what is the goal of the novel?
(a) To prove the fourth dimension
(b) To instruct
(c) To waste time
(d) To entertain
9. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?
(a) The first dimension
(b) The fifth dimension
(c) The fourth dimension
(d) The second dimension
10. 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 South.
(c) Allow her to pass to the East.
(d) Allow her to pass to the West.
11. What is the editor's defense of the first objection?
(a) That since direction cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(b) That since weight cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(c) That since thickness cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
(d) That since distance cannot be measured, it is not comprehended.
12. What can men do when women are in their apartments?
(a) They can only speak.
(b) They can only touch the woman.
(c) Anything, since the woman won't remember it.
(d) Nothing, since they are inaccessible to men.
13. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?
(a) They are cherished as the highest member of the Isosceles family.
(b) They are taken away and given to Equilateral parents.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are looked down upon.
14. What does the State do with smaller angle specimens used for teaching tools?
(a) They are not fed, and thus killed.
(b) They are paid well.
(c) They are used as food for higher angle specimens.
(d) They are dissected.
15. What shape are nobility members?
(a) Squares
(b) Circles
(c) Straight lines
(d) Hexagons
Short Answer Questions
1. How was the bill going to destroy the aristocracy?
2. Within how many generations did nearly everyone adopt color?
3. The second law for women is:
4. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?
5. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?
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