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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?
(a) Fifty
(b) Two
(c) One
(d) Infinite

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

6. What dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?
(a) The Second dimension
(b) The Fourth dimension
(c) The Third dimension
(d) The First dimension

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

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

9. Where does A. Square travel in his dream?
(a) Lineland
(b) Pointland
(c) Spaceland
(d) Flatland

10. What was A. Square's grandson's reward for his work with sight recognition?
(a) A song
(b) A cookie
(c) Money
(d) Hints in geometry

11. What does the shape claim to be?
(a) Many hexagons in one
(b) Many squares in one
(c) Many circles in one
(d) Many triangles in one

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A. Square tell his wife has happened?

2. What is a circle in Flatland?

3. How do individuals in Lineland move?

4. What is A. Square's first impression of Spaceland.

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

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