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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What directions are A. Square unable to grasp?
(a) Up and Down
(b) East and West
(c) Right and Left
(d) North and South

3. Where does A. Square asked to be taken, after the stranger's explanation of those who believe in the fourth dimension?
(a) Pointland
(b) Lineland
(c) Thoughtland
(d) Higher Spaceland

4. In Spaceland, what is valued highest: intellect, emotion, money, or faith?
(a) Intellect
(b) Faith
(c) Emotion
(d) Money

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

6. 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 Pointland.
(d) He will take him to Lineland.

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

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

9. What fear does the stranger have as A. Square calls for help?
(a) The others will imprison him.
(b) The others will kill him.
(c) That others will see the Third Dimension.
(d) The others will not believe him.

10. What does A. Square do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Understands the lesson.
(b) Leaves the room.
(c) Attacks the stranger.
(d) Cries.

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

12. What does the stranger show A. Square first?
(a) The stranger's home
(b) A true cube
(c) A. Square's own home
(d) The entire world of Flatland

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?

2. Why does A. Square believe his sons will not understand?

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

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

5. What happens to A. Square when he finally tells of his adventures?

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