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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 work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Doctors
(b) Government positions
(c) Tradesmen
(d) Teachers
2. Who is the editor, in reality, who wrote the Preface?
(a) A. Square
(b) Paul Kennedy
(c) Banesh Hoffman
(d) Edward Abbott
3. How do families rise in standing?
(a) Each generation is educated in a more superior manner.
(b) Each generation is born with one less side.
(c) Each generation is born with one new side.
(d) They do not; statuses are unchangeable in Flatland.
4. What shape are nobility members?
(a) Hexagons
(b) Circles
(c) Straight lines
(d) Squares
5. What shape are soldiers?
(a) Straight lines
(b) Isosceles Triangles
(c) Equilateral triangles
(d) Squares
Short Answer Questions
1. What theory had Einstein not yet developed by the time Flatland was published?
2. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?
3. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?
4. What was this movement called?
5. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?
Short Essay Questions
1. What tools do inhabitants use to discern direction in Flatland?
2. Explain why square and triangular homes are not allowed. In addition, explain why government buildings are allowed to be triangular.
3. Explain why Hoffman believes Abbott was afraid the writing of the book may tarnish his other writings.
4. Explain the overall shape of a woman in Flatland, and why such a shape is detrimental?
5. What happens to irregular figures? Be sure to discuss all irregulars, including those with highly irregular figures.
6. Discuss at least two ways the inhabitants of Flatland attempt to alter natural evolution.
7. Summarize A. Square's example of how to imagine how inhabitants of Flatland see one another.
8. Explain how sight recognition is used in upper classes, and why such a method cannot be used for the lower class.
9. Summarize A. Square's explanation of Flatland.
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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