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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 does A. Square point out about the King's space?
(a) It is a line.
(b) It is a plane.
(c) It is a circle.
(d) It is a square.

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

3. What does A. Square do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Understands the lesson.
(b) Leaves the room.
(c) Attacks the stranger.
(d) Cries.

4. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.
(b) He is afraid of divorce.
(c) He is afraid of imprisonment.
(d) He realizes women are too dim to understand.

5. What does the Sphere admit at the end of the chapter?
(a) He was wrong, and has discovered the fourth dimension.
(b) He is only a dream.
(c) He was wrong to be angry at A. Square for his questions.
(d) He is really a circle from Flatland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of the lesson?

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

3. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?

4. What dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?

5. How does A. Square attack the stranger?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does A. Square feel is improper regarding the relationship between Circles and Women, and concerning the relationship between men and women in general?

3. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

4. Why does A. Square attack the Circle at the end of Chapter 16? Who does A. Square remind you of at this point, and why?

5. What does the grandson hear outside the window in Chapter 21? Why does he become afraid? What does this fear cause him to reject?

6. What method does A. Square next attempt to use to describe the Fourth Dimension? Why does he find it difficult?

7. 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?

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

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

10. Describe the Circle Class physically, and in terms of their role in society.

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