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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is believed to cause deviance?
(a) A sense of rejection
(b) Upbringing
(c) Irregular shape
(d) Lower class status

2. What does A. Square tell his wife has happened?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He tells her of Spaceland.
(c) He says he fell.
(d) He says he was dreaming.

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

4. Upon waking, who does A. Square plan to educate about dimensions?
(a) The Council
(b) His grandson
(c) His wife
(d) His daughter

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

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

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

8. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) Rises above Flatland.
(b) Removes dishes from the sink.
(c) Removes a tablet from a cupboard without opening the door.
(d) Writes the situation out mathematically.

9. What prohibits A. Square's student from learning?
(a) The level of intelligence needed
(b) The proclamation by the Council
(c) The laws of nature
(d) The knowledge of mathematics needed

10. What does the line claim to be?
(a) The Queen
(b) A Priest
(c) A Prince
(d) The King

11. 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

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

13. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?
(a) Disrespecting himself
(b) Disrespecting the Chief Circle
(c) Disrespecting her
(d) Disrespecting his grandson

14. What shape does the stranger use to teach about solids?
(a) A cube
(b) A straight line
(c) A triangle
(d) A sphere

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?

2. What does the shape claim to be?

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

4. Why does A. Square call the stranger his "lordship"?

5. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?

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