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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?
(a) Squares
(b) Equilateral
(c) Circles
(d) Pentagons
2. What is A. Square's first impression of Spaceland.
(a) It is ugly.
(b) It is madness or hell.
(c) It is beautiful.
(d) It is not real.
3. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?
(a) Women
(b) Squares
(c) Triangles
(d) Circles pretending to be women
4. What does A. Square ask for that he cannot be shown?
(a) The source of rain in Spaceland
(b) The insides of his teacher
(c) The home of the stranger
(d) The source of light in Flatland
5. How do individuals in Lineland move?
(a) In a single directional line.
(b) Only up and down.
(c) They can move anywhere.
(d) Only right to left.
6. How does A. Square attempt to prove he can see in Lineland?
(a) By describing a straight line.
(b) By describing a circle.
(c) By explaining that he can see lines and points.
(d) By explaining the number of each sex next to the king.
7. How is the regularity of women monitored?
(a) By pedigrees
(b) Through their own word
(c) Through feeling
(d) Through annual visits
8. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.
(b) He realizes women are too dim to understand.
(c) He is afraid of divorce.
(d) He is afraid of imprisonment.
9. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
(b) He rises above Flatland.
(c) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(d) He drops below Flatland.
10. What is the result of the lesson?
(a) The student understands.
(b) The student leaves the room.
(c) The student turns A. Square in to the Council.
(d) The student accuses A. Square of insanity.
11. What method of recognition is considered illegal?
(a) Sound
(b) Sight
(c) Touch
(d) Smell
12. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) Writes the situation out mathematically.
(b) Rises above Flatland.
(c) Removes a tablet from a cupboard without opening the door.
(d) Removes dishes from the sink.
13. How does A. Square attack the stranger?
(a) With a knife
(b) With a gun
(c) With his hands
(d) With his hardest right angle
14. What do circles do to their young?
(a) Break their frame to reshape them with more sides.
(b) Place them in boarding schools.
(c) Prepare them for higher education.
(d) Break their frame to reshape them with fewer sides.
15. What does A. Square do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Cries.
(b) Leaves the room.
(c) Understands the lesson.
(d) Attacks the stranger.
Short Answer Questions
1. What prohibits A. Square's student from learning?
2. What hinders A. Square's writing?
3. What does the line claim to be?
4. What is the primary focus of priests?
5. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?
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