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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 class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?
(a) Equilateral
(b) Squares
(c) Pentagons
(d) Circles
2. How do individuals in Lineland move?
(a) In a single directional line.
(b) Only right to left.
(c) They can move anywhere.
(d) Only up and down.
3. What recognition method is used as a teaching tool by the stranger?
(a) Smell
(b) Hearing
(c) Sight
(d) Touch
4. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?
(a) Asks them to teach in schools.
(b) Banishes them from Flatland.
(c) Kills or imprisons them.
(d) Ignores them.
5. What does the Sphere admit at the end of the chapter?
(a) He was wrong to be angry at A. Square for his questions.
(b) He is only a dream.
(c) He was wrong, and has discovered the fourth dimension.
(d) He is really a circle from Flatland.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
2. What is the second deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
3. What is the final fate for A. Square?
4. What is the primary focus of priests?
5. How does A. Square next attempt to explain the third dimension?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.
2. What method does A. Square next attempt to use to describe the Fourth Dimension? Why does he find it difficult?
3. Describe the evolution of Circles, and be sure to include both natural evolution and artificial evolution.
4. Explain the shapes of Lineland in Chapter 13, and their existence in terms of movement and marriage.
5. Explain A. Square's argument that he is now God, and Sphere's rebuttal in Chapter 18.
6. Explain the only recognition method used in Flatland, and why touch and sight are not used.
7. 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.
8. How does the Circle attempt to prove in Chapter 17 to A. Square he is telling the truth? Why is this nearly convincing?
9. Describe the scene between A. Square and his grandson in Chapter 15, and summarize the grandson's argument for a third dimension.
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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