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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What two body parts are the same on a woman?
2. On what does the civilization of Flatland depend?
3. From which direction does rain fall?
4. What shape of houses is not allowed?
5. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the shape of workmen and soldiers, women, the middle class, the professionals, and noblemen, or priests.
2. Based on the end of the Preface, what is the author attempting to say about the ruling class of his time?
3. What occurs in society as a result of the Color Revolt?
4. Summarize A. Square's example of how to imagine how inhabitants of Flatland see one another.
5. Summarize A. Square's explanation of Flatland.
6. In Chapter 5, A. Square explains how the Law of Nature provides an alphabet of angles through the birth of irregular angles and shapes. Explain what is done with irregular specimens in Flatland. Be sure to include small angle shapes in your discussion.
7. What is the law of nature that helps protect the upper class? Which law of nature do Circles use to help stifle agitation?
8. What caused women to turn against the color bill?
9. What happens to irregular figures? Be sure to discuss all irregulars, including those with highly irregular figures.
10. Explain the use of color in the military of Flatland.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the evolutionary process in Flatland, as explained in Chapter 3. Be sure to include not only the basics given, but also specific information about lower class individuals, Equilateral triangles, and Circles. Compare this evolutionary process to that of humans.
Essay Topic 2
In Flatland, there are several Laws of Nature discussed that serve to keep the Circles in power. Choose one of these laws, and explain it in depth. Does such a law of nature truly exist in the world? What do you believe Abbott was trying to say by introducing this law?
Essay Topic 3
Class clearly plays an important role in the novel, both in terms of the storyline and in terms of Abbott's use of symbolism to represent Victorian society. Discuss, in detail, Abbott's overall point about the class structure of society, and it's impact on each of the following:
1. Education
2. The legal system
3. Marriage
4. War
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