2. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?
(a) Not all aspects of Pointland are meant to correspond to Flatland.
(b) The book is to be taken literally at all times.
(c) Not all aspects of Flatland are meant to correspond to Spaceland.
(d) The book is not supposed to correspond at all to reality.

3. Why is hearing only used on occasion as a recognition method?
(a) Lower classes cannot make sounds.
(b) Higher classes cannot speak.
(c) All classes sound the same.
(d) Lower classes can imitate higher classes.

4. What group showed the most amazing display of color?
(a) Circles
(b) The Woman
(c) Intellectuals
(d) The Military

5. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?
(a) Rise above or beneath the surface
(b) Move north
(c) Move sideways
(d) Move south

Short Answer Questions

1. What is irregularity considered in Flatland?

2. What does the State do with smaller angle specimens used for teaching tools?

3. What is customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?

4. What does A. Square blame for the inhabitants' inability to discern North in the normal way?

5. What adverse effect did the new wave of color have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the characteristics of women in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 5, A. Square explains how the Law of Nature provides an alphabet of angles through the birth of irregular angles and shapes. Explain what is done with irregular specimens in Flatland. Be sure to include small angle shapes in your discussion.

3. What does Hoffman mean when he calls the novel timeless in the Introduction?

4. What tools do inhabitants use to discern direction in Flatland?

5. Explain how sound is used to recognize lower shape classes, and why such a method cannot be used by the upper class.

6. What was the Universal Color Bill, and why did women support it?

7. What occurred when individuals began to question where light came from?

8. Summarize A. Square's explanation of Flatland.

9. What is the author's primary defense against the idea that those in Flatland should recognize thickness, and infer a dimension?

10. What caused women to turn against the color bill?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 826 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)

View a FREE sample