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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?
(a) Equilateral
(b) Circles
(c) Squares
(d) Pentagons

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

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

12. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?
(a) Asks them to teach in schools.
(b) Ignores them.
(c) Banishes them from Flatland.
(d) Kills or imprisons them.

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

14. What is A. Square's first question about Spaceland?
(a) Why he can see the stranger's insides.
(b) Why everything is bright.
(c) Why he cannot see the stranger's insides.
(d) Why everything is dark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

2. What do circles do to their young?

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

4. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?

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

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