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

2. In Spaceland, what is valued highest: intellect, emotion, money, or faith?
(a) Intellect
(b) Money
(c) Faith
(d) Emotion

3. What method of recognition is considered illegal?
(a) Touch
(b) Sound
(c) Sight
(d) Smell

4. What does A. Square tell his wife has happened?
(a) He says he was dreaming.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) He says he fell.
(d) He tells her of Spaceland.

5. Why does A. Square become saddened?
(a) He realizes he is a two dimensional object.
(b) His wife dies.
(c) He cannot visualize a cube.
(d) He cannot visualize a sphere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final fate for A. Square?

2. Where does A. Square first see Lineland?

3. Upon waking, who does A. Square plan to educate about dimensions?

4. What is the result of the lesson?

5. How does marriage occur in Lineland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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?

10. 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?

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