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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 is the average perimeter of a circle?
(a) Five feet
(b) Three feet
(c) Two feet
(d) Twenty feet

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

3. 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 pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(c) He rises above Flatland to describe neighboring occurrences.
(d) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.

4. What does the stranger show A. Square first?
(a) A true cube
(b) The stranger's home
(c) A. Square's own home
(d) The entire world of Flatland

5. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) Rises above Flatland.
(b) Writes the situation out mathematically.
(c) Removes dishes from the sink.
(d) Removes a tablet from a cupboard without opening the door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?

2. Where does A. Square first see Lineland?

3. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

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

5. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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