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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. How did the Legislature finally stop individuals from trying to find the source of light in Flatland?
(a) They sent those who questioned to prison.
(b) They told them the light was from God.
(c) They prohibited the question entirely.
(d) They taxed them until they stopped asking questions.

2. What army did the Isosceles defeat?
(a) The Circles
(b) The Women
(c) The Right Triangles
(d) The Polygons

3. What ended the women's support of the bill?
(a) The attack of a young woman by a Circle pretending to be a lower class shape
(b) The attack of a young woman by an Isosceles pretending to be a higher class shape.
(c) The attack of a young woman by a Square pretending to be a higher class shape
(d) The attack of a young woman by an Right Triangle pretending to be a higher class shape

4. What does the State do with smaller angle specimens used for teaching tools?
(a) They are paid well.
(b) They are dissected.
(c) They are not fed, and thus killed.
(d) They are used as food for higher angle specimens.

5. To what class does the Law of Nature not always apply?
(a) The Priests
(b) The Tradesmen
(c) The Professionals
(d) The Middle Class

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?

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

4. What is the editor's defense of the first objection?

5. What does the editor say is his third reason for writing the preface?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when the Circles regained power following defeat of the color bill? Please be specific.

2. Explain why Hoffman believes Abbott was afraid the writing of the book may tarnish his other writings.

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

4. Name some features of the houses of Flatland.

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

6. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?

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

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

9. What occurs in society as a result of the Color Revolt?

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

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