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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does A. Square attack the stranger?
(a) With a gun
(b) With his hardest right angle
(c) With a knife
(d) With his hands

2. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?
(a) Circles
(b) Squares
(c) Equilateral
(d) Pentagons

3. What shape does the stranger use to teach about solids?
(a) A cube
(b) A triangle
(c) A straight line
(d) A sphere

4. What directions are A. Square unable to grasp?
(a) East and West
(b) Right and Left
(c) North and South
(d) Up and Down

5. How does marriage occur in Lineland?
(a) When two individuals fall in love.
(b) When a man's voice matches with that of two women.
(c) When a woman's voice matches with that of two men.
(d) Marriage doesn't happen in Lineland.

6. What method of recognition is considered illegal?
(a) Smell
(b) Sound
(c) Sight
(d) Touch

7. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?
(a) He is a square.
(b) His size and brightness change.
(c) His color changes.
(d) He is a criminal.

8. What does the stranger say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is real.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It is inconceivable.
(d) It is easy to travel through.

9. What does the stranger do to A. Square at the end of the chapter?
(a) Places him in Pointland.
(b) Places him in Lineland.
(c) Places him in the Fourth Dimension.
(d) Throws him from Spaceland.

10. Why does A. Square become saddened?
(a) He realizes he is a two dimensional object.
(b) He cannot visualize a sphere.
(c) His wife dies.
(d) He cannot visualize a cube.

11. What does A. Square say about true space?
(a) It is a line.
(b) It is a square.
(c) It is a plane.
(d) It is a circle.

12. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He is afraid of imprisonment.
(b) He realizes women are too dim to understand.
(c) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.
(d) He is afraid of divorce.

13. How is the regularity of women monitored?
(a) Through feeling
(b) Through annual visits
(c) By pedigrees
(d) Through their own word

14. What do those in power actually do?
(a) All things relating to religion
(b) Everything
(c) Nothing
(d) All things relating to government

15. Why does A. Square call the stranger his "lordship"?
(a) He believes the stranger is a king.
(b) He believes the stranger is the Chief Circle.
(c) He believes the stranger is a perfect circle.
(d) He believes the stranger is his boss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

2. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?

3. Where does A. Square first see Lineland?

4. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?

5. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?

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