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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 final fate for A. Square?
(a) He is committed to an asylum.
(b) He is imprisoned for life.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is banished from the town.

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

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

4. What was A. Square's grandson's reward for his work with sight recognition?
(a) Hints in geometry
(b) Money
(c) A song
(d) A cookie

5. Why does A. Square call the stranger his "lordship"?
(a) He believes the stranger is a king.
(b) He believes the stranger is his boss.
(c) He believes the stranger is a perfect circle.
(d) He believes the stranger is the Chief Circle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the regularity of women monitored?

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

3. What does the stranger say about the fourth dimension?

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

5. What is the result of the lesson?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

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

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