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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Sphere point out about being self-content?
(a) It equals happiness.
(b) It equals ignorance.
(c) It equals stupidity.
(d) It equals strength.

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

4. 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 Spaceland.
(c) He will take him to Lineland.
(d) He will take him to Pointland.

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

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

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

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

9. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?
(a) His own
(b) Nothing, since he doesn't hear it
(c) The voice of the Sphere
(d) The voice of God

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

11. Who controls Flatland?
(a) The Women
(b) All individuals equally
(c) The Men
(d) The Priests

12. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?
(a) Women
(b) Circles pretending to be women
(c) Triangles
(d) Squares

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

14. 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 pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(c) He rises above Flatland.
(d) He drops below Flatland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does A. Square next attempt to explain the third dimension?

2. Why is deception not a problem in Lineland?

3. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?

4. What does the line claim to be?

5. What begins at the end of the chapter?

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