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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Tradesmen
(b) Doctors
(c) Teachers
(d) Government positions

3. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?
(a) The book is to be taken literally at all times.
(b) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(c) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.
(d) Not all aspects of Flatland are meant to correspond to Spaceland.

4. From which direction does rain fall?
(a) Up
(b) Down
(c) North
(d) South

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

6. What shape are professional men?
(a) Circles
(b) Squares or Pentagons
(c) Equilateral or Isosceles triangles
(d) Hexagons

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

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

9. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?
(a) Time
(b) Boredom
(c) Critics
(d) Space

10. How was the bill going to destroy the aristocracy?
(a) Through coloration of the military
(b) Through the coloration of tradesmen
(c) Through coloration of Circles and a loss of sight recognition
(d) Through coloration of women and an increase of sight recognition

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

13. What shape are soldiers?
(a) Equilateral triangles
(b) Squares
(c) Isosceles Triangles
(d) Straight lines

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

15. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?
(a) Such actions result in higher birth rates.
(b) Such actions result in the death of more men.
(c) Such actions result in higher suicide rates.
(d) Such actions result in the death of more women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?

2. What method of recognition was no longer taught?

3. Under what name was Flatland originally published?

4. To what does the author compare Flatland?

5. What does A. Square say about the aesthetic and artistic aspects of Flatland?

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