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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. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?
(a) It is easy to confuse Isosceles triangles with Equilateral triangles.
(b) It is easy to confuse a ten-sided shape with a twelve-sided shape.
(c) It is easy to confuse a square with a triangle.
(d) All angles feel the same.

2. What does Hoffman say about the first three dimensions?
(a) They are spatial.
(b) They are temporal.
(c) They are stable.
(d) They are unstable.

3. On what does the civilization of Flatland depend?
(a) The State
(b) Irregularity of shapes
(c) The lower classes
(d) Regularity of shapes

4. What is the third form of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Touch
(b) Sight
(c) Hearing
(d) Smell

5. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?
(a) Such actions result in higher birth rates.
(b) Such actions result in higher suicide rates.
(c) Such actions result in the death of more women.
(d) Such actions result in the death of more men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?

2. What is the second means of recognition in Flatland?

3. According to Hoffman, what is the goal of the novel?

4. To what class does the Law of Nature not always apply?

5. After the war, who is still allowed to make color?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the overall shape of a woman in Flatland, and why such a shape is detrimental?

2. Name some features of the houses of Flatland.

3. What appears to be the reasoning behind the need for the preface of this novel?

4. In Chapter 1, what does A. Square compare sight in Flatland to in the three dimensional world, Spaceland, and what is the comparison?

5. How does A. Square explain the lack of ability to discern changes in retraction or projection in Chapter 1?

6. Explain how sight recognition is used in upper classes, and why such a method cannot be used for the lower class.

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

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

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

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

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