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

2. What do those in power actually do?
(a) Everything
(b) All things relating to government
(c) Nothing
(d) All things relating to religion

3. What is the result of the lesson?
(a) The student leaves the room.
(b) The student understands.
(c) The student turns A. Square in to the Council.
(d) The student accuses A. Square of insanity.

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

5. What does A. Square say about true space?
(a) It is a square.
(b) It is a plane.
(c) It is a circle.
(d) It is a line.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are women not taught to do?

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

3. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?

4. What hinders A. Square's writing?

5. Who controls Flatland?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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