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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What class does the Equilateral triangle represent?
(a) Tradesmen
(b) Worker
(c) Priest
(d) Woman
2. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are looked down upon.
(c) They are cherished as the highest member of the Isosceles family.
(d) They are taken away and given to Equilateral parents.
3. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?
(a) Allow her to pass to the West.
(b) Allow her to pass to the South.
(c) Allow her to pass to the North.
(d) Allow her to pass to the East.
4. What was Edwin Abbott's field of interest?
(a) Science
(b) Classics
(c) Social Relations
(d) Math
5. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?
(a) They are very strong.
(b) They are very smart.
(c) They have three pointed sides.
(d) They are pointed on both ends.
Short Answer Questions
1. The first law for women is;
2. What allows this method to be possible?
3. What happens to the most irregular shapes?
4. What shape are women?
5. Why are there no windows in houses of Flatland?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the author's primary defense against the idea that A. Square hates women?
2. How does A. Square explain the lack of ability to discern changes in retraction or projection in Chapter 1?
3. What tools do inhabitants use to discern direction in Flatland?
4. Why does Hoffman believe the development of the fourth dimension does not lessen the lessons of the book?
5. What does Hoffman mean when he calls the novel timeless in the Introduction?
6. What example does A. Square use to show his reasoning behind the need for regularity of shape?
7. Explain how sight recognition is used in upper classes, and why such a method cannot be used for the lower class.
8. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?
9. What happens to irregular figures? Be sure to discuss all irregulars, including those with highly irregular figures.
10. What is the law of nature that helps protect the upper class? Which law of nature do Circles use to help stifle agitation?
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