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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 do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Understands the lesson.
(b) Cries.
(c) Leaves the room.
(d) Attacks the stranger.

2. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He realizes women are too dim to understand.
(b) He is afraid of divorce.
(c) He is afraid of imprisonment.
(d) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the regularity of women monitored?

2. What directions are A. Square unable to grasp?

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

4. What do circles do to their young?

5. What shape does the stranger use to teach about solids?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

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

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

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

9. Explain the only recognition method used in Flatland, and why touch and sight are not used.

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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