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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 first notice about the stranger?
(a) His size and brightness change.
(b) His color changes.
(c) He is a criminal.
(d) He is a square.

2. What prohibits A. Square's student from learning?
(a) The proclamation by the Council
(b) The knowledge of mathematics needed
(c) The laws of nature
(d) The level of intelligence needed

3. What does the stranger say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is real.
(b) It is inconceivable.
(c) It is easy to travel through.
(d) It does not exist.

4. What do circles do to their young?
(a) Place them in boarding schools.
(b) Break their frame to reshape them with fewer sides.
(c) Prepare them for higher education.
(d) Break their frame to reshape them with more sides.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A. Square tell his wife has happened?

2. Who controls Flatland?

3. What was A. Square's grandson's reward for his work with sight recognition?

4. What does the Sphere admit at the end of the chapter?

5. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene between A. Square and his grandson in Chapter 15, and summarize the grandson's argument for a third dimension.

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

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

4. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

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. 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?

7. The Circle attempts to use an analogy to explain three dimensional space to A. Square in Chapter 16. Summarize this analogy.

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

9. Explain A. Square's argument that he is now God, and Sphere's rebuttal in Chapter 18.

10. 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.

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