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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 method of recognition was no longer taught?
(a) Touch
(b) Sight
(c) Smell
(d) Hearing
2. In what year was Flatland written?
(a) 1774
(b) 1884
(c) 1844
(d) 1964
3. What was Edwin Abbott's occupation?
(a) Mathematician
(b) Writer
(c) Plumber
(d) Headmaster
4. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?
(a) Allow her to pass to the East.
(b) Allow her to pass to the South.
(c) Allow her to pass to the West.
(d) Allow her to pass to the North.
5. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?
(a) A straight line
(b) A single point
(c) An Equilateral triangle
(d) A curved line
Short Answer Questions
1. How was the bill going to destroy the aristocracy?
2. Why were women in support of the bill?
3. How long did the color movement continue?
4. What happens to Equilateral children of Isosceles Triangles?
5. What does A. Square say about the aesthetic and artistic aspects of Flatland?
Short Essay Questions
1. What caused women to turn against the color bill?
2. Explain the shape of workmen and soldiers, women, the middle class, the professionals, and noblemen, or priests.
3. What are the three rules created for women, in order to protect society? What are the rules in the strictest society?
4. What example does A. Square use to show his reasoning behind the need for regularity of shape?
5. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?
6. What does Hoffman mean when he calls the novel timeless in the Introduction?
7. What occurred when individuals began to question where light came from?
8. What is the law of nature that helps protect the upper class? Which law of nature do Circles use to help stifle agitation?
9. What is Hoffman's belief about the relatability of the characters in the novel?
10. What happens to aristocratic children who fail exams, and as a result, what does the State feel should happen?
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