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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is A. Square's first impression of Spaceland.
(a) It is beautiful.
(b) It is not real.
(c) It is madness or hell.
(d) It is ugly.

2. What is the result of the lesson?
(a) The student leaves the room.
(b) The student understands.
(c) The student accuses A. Square of insanity.
(d) The student turns A. Square in to the Council.

3. What do all inhabitants of Lineland see?
(a) Nothing
(b) Shapes
(c) Lines and points
(d) A single point

4. What shape does the grandson almost grasp?
(a) A cube
(b) A line
(c) A circle
(d) A triangle

5. How does A. Square next attempt to explain the third dimension?
(a) Through personal experience
(b) Through writing
(c) Through speech
(d) Through demonstration

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

7. What does A. Square discover about the stranger when he is allowed to feel his body?
(a) The stranger is a straight line.
(b) The stranger has no shape.
(c) The stranger has many angles.
(d) The stranger has no angles.

8. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?
(a) He will kill him.
(b) He will take him to Pointland.
(c) He will take him to Lineland.
(d) He will take him to Spaceland.

9. 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

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

11. What does A. Square point out about the King's space?
(a) It is a square.
(b) It is a line.
(c) It is a circle.
(d) It is a plane.

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

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

14. What is the primary focus of priests?
(a) Attend to their configuration.
(b) Raise a family.
(c) Attend higher education.
(d) Become involved in government.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who controls Flatland?

2. What recognition method is used as a teaching tool by the stranger?

3. What dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?

4. What do those in power actually do?

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

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