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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. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?
(a) Banishes them from Flatland.
(b) Asks them to teach in schools.
(c) Ignores them.
(d) Kills or imprisons them.

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

3. What does the stranger show A. Square first?
(a) A. Square's own home
(b) The stranger's home
(c) A true cube
(d) The entire world of Flatland

4. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?
(a) The result will be a lack of communication.
(b) The result will be a lesser male intellect.
(c) The result will be more public accidents.
(d) The result will be more accidents in the home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does A. Square asked to be taken, after the stranger's explanation of those who believe in the fourth dimension?

3. What does the stranger do to A. Square at the end of the chapter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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