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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Sphere admit at the end of the chapter?
(a) He is really a circle from Flatland.
(b) He was wrong to be angry at A. Square for his questions.
(c) He was wrong, and has discovered the fourth dimension.
(d) He is only a dream.

2. What hinders A. Square's writing?
(a) There are diagrams.
(b) Their are only tablets to write with.
(c) There are only lines to write with.
(d) There is no mathematical equivalent.

3. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He drops below Flatland.
(b) He rises above Flatland.
(c) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
(d) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.

4. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?
(a) The result will be more public accidents.
(b) The result will be a lack of communication.
(c) The result will be more accidents in the home.
(d) The result will be a lesser male intellect.

5. What recognition method is used as a teaching tool by the stranger?
(a) Smell
(b) Sight
(c) Touch
(d) Hearing

6. How does A. Square know he is to be punished for his views?
(a) His children are removed from the home.
(b) He sees his wife being taken away.
(c) His brother informs him.
(d) The Council substitutes smaller angled soldiers to oversee proceedings.

7. What are women not taught to do?
(a) Walk
(b) Drive
(c) Speak
(d) Read

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

9. What is the second deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(b) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
(c) He rises above Flatland to describe neighboring occurrences.
(d) He drops below Flatland to describe the ground.

10. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
(a) Because if it were, no one would be God.
(b) Because if it were, the criminals of Spaceland would be the Gods of Flatland.
(c) Because if it were, everyone in Flatland would be a God.
(d) Because God's do not exist.

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

12. What is a circle in Flatland?
(a) A term for anyone higher than a woman
(b) A term for anyone higher than a triangle
(c) A polygon with many sides
(d) A true circle, with no sides

13. What does the stranger show A. Square first?
(a) A. Square's own home
(b) A true cube
(c) The stranger's home
(d) The entire world of Flatland

14. What does the shape claim to be?
(a) Many triangles in one
(b) Many circles in one
(c) Many squares in one
(d) Many hexagons in one

15. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?
(a) Sound
(b) Touch
(c) Smell
(d) Sight

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape does the stranger use to teach about solids?

2. How does marriage occur in Lineland?

3. What does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?

4. What does the stranger do to A. Square at the end of the chapter?

5. What prohibits A. Square's student from learning?

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