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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 bill sought to color women and circles the same?
(a) The Flatland Sight bill
(b) The Universal Color bill
(c) The Universal Recognition bill
(d) The Spaceland Color bill

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

3. After the war, who is still allowed to make color?
(a) The Chief Circle
(b) The intellectuals
(c) Criminals
(d) Women

4. What is customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?
(a) Never leave their apartments
(b) Never leave the house
(c) Face their husbands
(d) Never speak to their husbands

5. Who is the editor, in reality, who wrote the Preface?
(a) A. Square
(b) Edward Abbott
(c) Paul Kennedy
(d) Banesh Hoffman

Short Answer Questions

1. What ended the women's support of the bill?

2. From which direction does rain fall?

3. Within how many generations did nearly everyone adopt color?

4. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?

5. Why were women in support of the bill?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the shape of workmen and soldiers, women, the middle class, the professionals, and noblemen, or priests.

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

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

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

5. Why does Hoffman believe the development of the fourth dimension does not lessen the lessons of the book?

6. In Chapter 5, A. Square explains how the Law of Nature provides an alphabet of angles through the birth of irregular angles and shapes. Explain what is done with irregular specimens in Flatland. Be sure to include small angle shapes in your discussion.

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

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

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

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

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