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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does marriage occur in Lineland?
(a) Marriage doesn't happen in Lineland.
(b) When two individuals fall in love.
(c) When a woman's voice matches with that of two men.
(d) When a man's voice matches with that of two women.

2. What does the Sphere admit at the end of the chapter?
(a) He is really a circle from Flatland.
(b) He was wrong, and has discovered the fourth dimension.
(c) He was wrong to be angry at A. Square for his questions.
(d) He is only a dream.

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

4. 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) Writes the situation out mathematically.
(d) Removes dishes from the sink.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He is afraid of divorce.
(b) He is afraid of imprisonment.
(c) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.
(d) He realizes women are too dim to understand.

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

13. How is the regularity of women monitored?
(a) Through feeling
(b) Through annual visits
(c) Through their own word
(d) By pedigrees

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is deception not a problem in Lineland?

2. What dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?

3. What shape does the stranger use to teach about solids?

4. What begins at the end of the chapter?

5. What does the Sphere point out about being self-content?

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