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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do all inhabitants of Lineland see?
(a) Lines and points
(b) A single point
(c) Nothing
(d) Shapes
2. What hinders A. Square's writing?
(a) Their are only tablets to write with.
(b) There are only lines to write with.
(c) There are diagrams.
(d) There is no mathematical equivalent.
3. What does A. Square say about true space?
(a) It is a square.
(b) It is a plane.
(c) It is a circle.
(d) It is a line.
4. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?
(a) Touch
(b) Smell
(c) Sight
(d) Sound
5. What does the line claim to be?
(a) A Prince
(b) The Queen
(c) A Priest
(d) The King
6. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He rises above Flatland.
(b) He drops below Flatland.
(c) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(d) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
7. How is the regularity of women monitored?
(a) Through their own word
(b) Through feeling
(c) Through annual visits
(d) By pedigrees
8. What do those in power actually do?
(a) All things relating to government
(b) Everything
(c) Nothing
(d) All things relating to religion
9. What does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?
(a) A woman
(b) A circle
(c) A square
(d) A triangle
10. What does A. Square ask for that he cannot be shown?
(a) The home of the stranger
(b) The source of rain in Spaceland
(c) The insides of his teacher
(d) The source of light in Flatland
11. 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.
12. What fear does the stranger have as A. Square calls for help?
(a) The others will kill him.
(b) The others will not believe him.
(c) That others will see the Third Dimension.
(d) The others will imprison him.
13. Who does A. Square decide is fit for his lesson?
(a) The Council
(b) His grandson
(c) His daughter
(d) His son
14. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.
(b) He is afraid of imprisonment.
(c) He realizes women are too dim to understand.
(d) He is afraid of divorce.
15. Where does A. Square travel in his dream?
(a) Pointland
(b) Lineland
(c) Spaceland
(d) Flatland
Short Answer Questions
1. What directions are A. Square unable to grasp?
2. Upon waking, who does A. Square plan to educate about dimensions?
3. Who controls Flatland?
4. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?
5. What does A. Square point out about the King's space?
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