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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 do individuals in Lineland move?
(a) Only up and down.
(b) They can move anywhere.
(c) Only right to left.
(d) In a single directional line.

2. In Spaceland, what is valued highest: intellect, emotion, money, or faith?
(a) Intellect
(b) Money
(c) Faith
(d) Emotion

3. Why does A. Square believe his sons will not understand?
(a) They are triangles.
(b) They are Council members.
(c) They are not good with mathematics.
(d) They are not intelligent.

4. What is the result of the lesson?
(a) The student accuses A. Square of insanity.
(b) The student understands.
(c) The student leaves the room.
(d) The student turns A. Square in to the Council.

5. What does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?
(a) A circle
(b) A square
(c) A triangle
(d) A woman

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does A. Square asked to be taken, after the stranger's explanation of those who believe in the fourth dimension?

2. What do circles do to their young?

3. What is the final fate for A. Square?

4. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?

5. What does the stranger say about the fourth dimension?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the scene A. Square sees at the General Assembly Hall of the States of Flatland, and what Sphere does at the end of Chapter 18.

2. The Circle attempts to use an analogy to explain three dimensional space to A. Square in Chapter 16. Summarize this analogy.

3. Explain the only recognition method used in Flatland, and why touch and sight are not used.

4. Describe the evolution of Circles, and be sure to include both natural evolution and artificial evolution.

5. Why does the Sphere throw A. Square from Spaceland at the end of Chapter 19? Who does Sphere remind you of at this point, and why?

6. Explain how the inhabitant of Pointland views his world.

7. Explain the primary focus of Circles in Chapter 12, and the reasoning behind that focus.

8. Explain A. Square's login that a Fourth dimension must exist.

9. What methods does A. Square use to attempt to explain two dimensional space? Summarize the information he explains to the King.

10. Explain the shapes of Lineland in Chapter 13, and their existence in terms of movement and marriage.

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