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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 dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?
(a) The Second dimension
(b) The Fourth dimension
(c) The First dimension
(d) The Third dimension

2. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?
(a) He will kill him.
(b) He will take him to Lineland.
(c) He will take him to Spaceland.
(d) He will take him to Pointland.

3. What does A. Square ask for that he cannot be shown?
(a) The source of rain in Spaceland
(b) The home of the stranger
(c) The insides of his teacher
(d) The source of light in Flatland

4. What is the second deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He drops below Flatland to describe the ground.
(b) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
(c) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(d) He rises above Flatland to describe neighboring occurrences.

5. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
(a) Because if it were, everyone in Flatland would be a God.
(b) Because if it were, the criminals of Spaceland would be the Gods of Flatland.
(c) Because if it were, no one would be God.
(d) Because God's do not exist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A. Square say about true space?

2. What shape does the grandson almost grasp?

3. What does the shape claim to be?

4. How do individuals in Lineland move?

5. What fear does the stranger have as A. Square calls for help?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Circle attempt to prove in Chapter 17 to A. Square he is telling the truth? Why is this nearly convincing?

2. Explain why A. Square chooses his grandson to be the student for his lesson about the Fourth Dimension, and why he doesn't choose another student.

3. Describe what happens that leads to the imprisonment of A. Square.

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

5. Describe the scene between A. Square and his grandson in Chapter 15, and summarize the grandson's argument for a third dimension.

6. What situation leads to the taking of A. Square into Spaceland at the end of Chapter 17?

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

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

9. What does A. Square's wife do to the Circle at the end of the chapter? Why does she become afraid and embarrassed?

10. Explain why A. Square had to be sure to be in a certain position in order to speak to the King of Lineland. What would the King have experienced if A. Square had not done this?

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