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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 begins at the end of the chapter?
(a) The second millennium
(b) The first millennium
(c) The fourth millennium
(d) The third millennium

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

3. What does the line claim to be?
(a) A Priest
(b) A Prince
(c) The King
(d) The Queen

4. Upon waking, who does A. Square plan to educate about dimensions?
(a) His grandson
(b) The Council
(c) His daughter
(d) His wife

5. What dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?
(a) The First dimension
(b) The Second dimension
(c) The Third dimension
(d) The Fourth dimension

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are women not taught to do?

3. How does A. Square attack the stranger?

4. What hinders A. Square's writing?

5. What recognition method is used as a teaching tool by the stranger?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the primary focus of Circles in Chapter 12, and the reasoning behind that focus.

2. 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.

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

4. 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?

5. Describe the Circle Class physically, and in terms of their role in society.

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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.

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