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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does A. Square ask for that he cannot be shown?
(a) The source of rain in Spaceland
(b) The source of light in Flatland
(c) The insides of his teacher
(d) The home of the stranger

2. What is the final fate for A. Square?
(a) He is killed.
(b) He is committed to an asylum.
(c) He is imprisoned for life.
(d) He is banished from the town.

3. What begins at the end of the chapter?
(a) The third millennium
(b) The second millennium
(c) The first millennium
(d) The fourth millennium

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

5. How do individuals in Lineland move?
(a) They can move anywhere.
(b) Only right to left.
(c) Only up and down.
(d) In a single directional line.

6. 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.

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

8. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?
(a) One
(b) Fifty
(c) Two
(d) Infinite

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

10. What happens as the race of circles climbs higher in development?
(a) They become more intelligent.
(b) They become more fertile.
(c) They become less intelligent.
(d) They become less fertile.

11. Why is deception not a problem in Lineland?
(a) The inhabitants cannot change their voice.
(b) The inhabitants cannot change their shape.
(c) The inhabitants cannot change their angles.
(d) The inhabitants cannot change their smell.

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

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

14. Who does A. Square decide is fit for his lesson?
(a) His daughter
(b) The Council
(c) His son
(d) His grandson

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the average perimeter of a circle?

3. What does A. Square discover about the stranger when he is allowed to feel his body?

4. What is believed to cause deviance?

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

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