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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. Who controls Flatland?
(a) All individuals equally
(b) The Women
(c) The Priests
(d) The Men
2. What does A. Square ask for that he cannot be shown?
(a) The home of the stranger
(b) The source of light in Flatland
(c) The source of rain in Spaceland
(d) The insides of his teacher
3. What do those in power actually do?
(a) All things relating to government
(b) Nothing
(c) All things relating to religion
(d) Everything
4. What does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?
(a) A square
(b) A woman
(c) A triangle
(d) A circle
5. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He realizes women are too dim to understand.
(b) He is afraid of imprisonment.
(c) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.
(d) He is afraid of divorce.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
2. Why is deception not a problem in Lineland?
3. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?
4. Why does A. Square believe his sons will not understand?
5. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
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. Explain the primary focus of Circles in Chapter 12, and the reasoning behind that focus.
4. What method does A. Square next attempt to use to describe the Fourth Dimension? Why does he find it difficult?
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Describe the evolution of Circles, and be sure to include both natural evolution and artificial evolution.
8. Describe the scene between A. Square and his grandson in Chapter 15, and summarize the grandson's argument for a third dimension.
9. Describe the Circle Class physically, and in terms of their role in society.
10. What methods does A. Square use to attempt to explain two dimensional space? Summarize the information he explains to the King.
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