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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 shape are soldiers?
(a) Equilateral triangles
(b) Straight lines
(c) Isosceles Triangles
(d) Squares
2. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?
(a) Triangles and Squares
(b) Solids
(c) Straight lines
(d) Circles
3. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?
(a) They don't understand angles.
(b) They see them.
(c) They understand the mathematics behind them.
(d) They infer them.
4. Where are higher class youths sent for education?
(a) Spaceland
(b) Military schools
(c) Seminaries
(d) State schools
5. What happens to the trade man in the author's example of problems with irregular shapes?
(a) He is stuck in a doorway.
(b) He is unable to move.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is put into prison.
Short Answer Questions
1. The second law for women is:
2. What happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?
3. How long did the color movement continue?
4. What adverse effect did the new wave of color have?
5. Where are readers assumed to live?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the law of nature that helps protect the upper class? Which law of nature do Circles use to help stifle agitation?
2. What happens to aristocratic children who fail exams, and as a result, what does the State feel should happen?
3. Explain the basic process of evolution, as described in Chapter 3.
4. What occurred when individuals began to question where light came from?
5. What is the author's primary defense against the idea that those in Flatland should recognize thickness, and infer a dimension?
6. What happens to irregular figures? Be sure to discuss all irregulars, including those with highly irregular figures.
7. Explain why Hoffman believes Abbott was afraid the writing of the book may tarnish his other writings.
8. Explain how sound is used to recognize lower shape classes, and why such a method cannot be used by the upper class.
9. Explain how sight recognition is used in upper classes, and why such a method cannot be used for the lower class.
10. What were the events surrounding the spread of desire to color Flatland, and how long did almost complete colorization take?
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