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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?
(a) They are taken away and given to Equilateral parents.
(b) They are looked down upon.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are cherished as the highest member of the Isosceles family.

2. What does the "pull" in Flatland represent in Spaceland?
(a) Gravity
(b) Magnetic force
(c) Wind
(d) Emotional patterns

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

4. What does A. Square blame for the inhabitants' inability to discern North in the normal way?
(a) Lack of a sense of direction
(b) Lack of a sun
(c) Lack of compasses
(d) Lack of sight

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

6. Why are there no windows in houses of Flatland?
(a) Because light doesn't exist inside.
(b) Because light is always present and constant.
(c) Because light comes only from inside houses.
(d) Because light comes from the South.

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

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

9. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?
(a) The fourth dimension
(b) The first dimension
(c) The second dimension
(d) The fifth dimension

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

11. What happens to a man who "runs against" a woman?
(a) He is put into prison.
(b) He falls in love instantly.
(c) He immediately kills her.
(d) He is killed immediately.

12. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?
(a) Space
(b) Time
(c) Sound
(d) Movement

13. What is the most common form of house construction in Flatland?
(a) Square
(b) Circle
(c) Triangle
(d) Pentagon

14. What shape are women?
(a) Circles
(b) Squares
(c) Equilateral triangles
(d) Straight lines

15. Where are higher class youths sent for education?
(a) State schools
(b) Military schools
(c) Seminaries
(d) Spaceland

Short Answer Questions

1. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?

2. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?

3. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?

4. What happens to the trade man in the author's example of problems with irregular shapes?

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

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