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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 second deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He rises above Flatland to describe neighboring occurrences.
(b) He drops below Flatland to describe the ground.
(c) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(d) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.

2. What happens to A. Square when he finally tells of his adventures?
(a) He is believed to be a God.
(b) He is brought before students to teach.
(c) He is arrested and taken before the Council.
(d) He is imprisoned for life.

3. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?
(a) The result will be a lesser male intellect.
(b) The result will be more public accidents.
(c) The result will be more accidents in the home.
(d) The result will be a lack of communication.

4. What does A. Square point out about the King's space?
(a) It is a line.
(b) It is a plane.
(c) It is a square.
(d) It is a circle.

5. How does A. Square attempt to prove he can see in Lineland?
(a) By explaining that he can see lines and points.
(b) By describing a circle.
(c) By explaining the number of each sex next to the king.
(d) By describing a straight line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who controls Flatland?

2. Who does A. Square decide is fit for his lesson?

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

4. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?

5. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

4. What does A. Square's wife do to the Circle at the end of the chapter? Why does she become afraid and embarrassed?

5. 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?

6. What situation leads to the taking of A. Square into Spaceland at the end of Chapter 17?

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

8. Why does A. Square attack the Circle at the end of Chapter 16? Who does A. Square remind you of at this point, and why?

9. What methods does A. Square use to attempt to explain two dimensional space? Summarize the information he explains to the King.

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

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