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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) Government positions
(b) Teachers
(c) Doctors
(d) Tradesmen
2. What does the author tell the reader to do to mimic Flatland?
(a) Place a penny on a table.
(b) Place a penny on a table and look at it from above.
(c) Place a penny on a table and stand it on one end.
(d) Place a penny on a table and look at it at eye level.
3. What ended the women's support of the bill?
(a) The attack of a young woman by an Right Triangle pretending to be a higher class shape
(b) The attack of a young woman by a Square pretending to be a higher class shape
(c) The attack of a young woman by an Isosceles pretending to be a higher class shape.
(d) The attack of a young woman by a Circle pretending to be a lower class shape
4. Within how many generations did nearly everyone adopt color?
(a) Five
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Ten
5. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?
(a) Straight lines
(b) Triangles and Squares
(c) Solids
(d) Circles
Short Answer Questions
1. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?
2. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?
3. To what class does the Law of Nature not always apply?
4. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?
5. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the author's primary defense against the idea that those in Flatland should recognize thickness, and infer a dimension?
2. What occurred when individuals began to question where light came from?
3. What caused women to turn against the color bill?
4. What happens to aristocratic children who fail exams, and as a result, what does the State feel should happen?
5. Explain the shape of workmen and soldiers, women, the middle class, the professionals, and noblemen, or priests.
6. What appears to be the reasoning behind the need for the preface of this novel?
7. Explain the basic process of evolution, as described in Chapter 3.
8. What happened when the Circles regained power following defeat of the color bill? Please be specific.
9. What is the law of nature that helps protect the upper class? Which law of nature do Circles use to help stifle agitation?
10. Explain the use of color in the military of Flatland.
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