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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. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
(a) Because if it were, no one would be God.
(b) Because if it were, the criminals of Spaceland would be the Gods of Flatland.
(c) Because God's do not exist.
(d) Because if it were, everyone in Flatland would be a God.

2. What happens as the race of circles climbs higher in development?
(a) They become less intelligent.
(b) They become less fertile.
(c) They become more fertile.
(d) They become more intelligent.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who controls Flatland?

2. What does the Sphere point out about being self-content?

3. What does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?

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

5. How does A. Square attack the stranger?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

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

9. 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?

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

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