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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 can inhabitants conceive of angles?
(a) They infer them.
(b) They don't understand angles.
(c) They see them.
(d) They understand the mathematics behind them.

2. Where are readers assumed to live?
(a) Pointland
(b) Earthland
(c) Spaceland
(d) Timeland

3. To what does the author compare Flatland?
(a) A globe
(b) A piece of paper
(c) Sandpaper
(d) A book

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 nose and the mouth
(d) The mouth and the hand

5. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?
(a) They can change into other forms.
(b) They can make themselves invisible.
(c) They can move very quickly.
(d) They can see further than any other form.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the editor say is the first objection to the novel?

2. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?

3. According to Hoffman, what is the goal of the novel?

4. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?

5. In what year was Flatland written?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Name some features of the houses of Flatland.

4. What are some of the characteristics of women in Chapter 5?

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

6. What is the author's primary defense against the idea that A. Square hates women?

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

9. What caused women to turn against the color bill?

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

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