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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 does A. Square know he is to be punished for his views?
(a) The Council substitutes smaller angled soldiers to oversee proceedings.
(b) He sees his wife being taken away.
(c) His children are removed from the home.
(d) His brother informs him.

2. What happens to A. Square when he finally tells of his adventures?
(a) He is imprisoned for life.
(b) He is brought before students to teach.
(c) He is believed to be a God.
(d) He is arrested and taken before the Council.

3. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?
(a) Disrespecting her
(b) Disrespecting himself
(c) Disrespecting the Chief Circle
(d) Disrespecting his grandson

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape does the grandson almost grasp?

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

3. What prohibits A. Square's student from learning?

4. Where does A. Square first see Lineland?

5. What does A. Square discover about the stranger when he is allowed to feel his body?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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