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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 can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?
(a) Move north
(b) Rise above or beneath the surface
(c) Move south
(d) Move sideways
2. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?
(a) A single point
(b) A curved line
(c) A straight line
(d) An Equilateral triangle
3. What does the editor say is the second objection to the novel?
(a) That the author hates women.
(b) That the author hates men.
(c) That the author hates children.
(d) That the author hates priests.
4. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?
(a) Literature and mathematics
(b) Literature and theology
(c) Literature and physics
(d) Literature and social sciences
5. What method of recognition was no longer taught?
(a) Hearing
(b) Sight
(c) Touch
(d) Smell
Short Answer Questions
1. Where are readers assumed to live?
2. From which direction does rain fall?
3. The third law for women is:
4. What does A. Square say about the laws regarding irregulars?
5. What is the third form of recognition in Flatland?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how sight recognition is used in upper classes, and why such a method cannot be used for the lower class.
2. What occurred when individuals began to question where light came from?
3. What appears to be the reasoning behind the need for the preface of this novel?
4. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?
5. What caused women to turn against the color bill?
6. Summarize A. Square's explanation of Flatland.
7. What happens to aristocratic children who fail exams, and as a result, what does the State feel should happen?
8. Explain the use of color in the military of Flatland.
9. What is Hoffman's belief about the relatability of the characters in the novel?
10. What example does A. Square use to show his reasoning behind the need for regularity of shape?
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