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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In what year was Flatland written?
(a) 1884
(b) 1774
(c) 1844
(d) 1964

5. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?
(a) They see them.
(b) They infer them.
(c) They understand the mathematics behind them.
(d) They don't understand angles.

6. What does the editor say is the first objection to the novel?
(a) That weight should be noted in the novel.
(b) That thickness should be noted in the novel.
(c) That distance should be noted in the novel.
(d) That direction should be noted in the novel.

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

8. What is the Law of Nature?
(a) The tendency for each generation to rise in standing.
(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 any shape out of the ordinary to be killed.

9. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?
(a) Solids
(b) Circles
(c) Triangles and Squares
(d) Straight lines

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

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

12. What bill sought to color women and circles the same?
(a) The Universal Color bill
(b) The Flatland Sight bill
(c) The Universal Recognition bill
(d) The Spaceland Color bill

13. The third law for women is:
(a) Any female found in public is 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 with involuntary actions is to be immediately killed.

14. What happens to a line as it gets further away in Flatland?
(a) It gets larger.
(b) It gets thicker.
(c) It gets smaller.
(d) It gets thinner.

15. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?
(a) They are very smart.
(b) They have three pointed sides.
(c) They are pointed on both ends.
(d) They are very strong.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long did the color movement continue?

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

4. Why were women in support of the bill?

5. What is the third unrecognized dimension in Flatland?

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