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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) Hearing
(b) Touch
(c) Sight
(d) Smell
2. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?
(a) Time
(b) Space
(c) Sound
(d) Movement
3. What is irregularity considered in Flatland?
(a) A rarity to be praised
(b) Immoral and criminal
(c) A way to achieve a higher class
(d) A character flaw
4. What two body parts are the same on a woman?
(a) The eye and the hand
(b) The eye and the mouth
(c) The mouth and the hand
(d) The nose and the mouth
5. What is the first means of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Sight
(b) Hearing
(c) Smell
(d) Touch
Short Answer Questions
1. How do families rise in standing?
2. What does the author tell the reader to do to mimic Flatland?
3. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?
4. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?
5. Why is touching on occasion inaccurate?
Short Essay Questions
1. What appears to be the reasoning behind the need for the preface of this novel?
2. What does Hoffman mean when he calls the novel timeless in the Introduction?
3. What are the three rules created for women, in order to protect society? What are the rules in the strictest society?
4. What tools do inhabitants use to discern direction in Flatland?
5. What example does A. Square use to show his reasoning behind the need for regularity of shape?
6. What are some of the characteristics of women in Chapter 5?
7. Explain why square and triangular homes are not allowed. In addition, explain why government buildings are allowed to be triangular.
8. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?
9. What is Hoffman's belief about the relatability of the characters in the novel?
10. Explain the shape of workmen and soldiers, women, the middle class, the professionals, and noblemen, or priests.
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