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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 does the Sphere point out about being self-content?
2. What does A. Square ask for that he cannot be shown?
3. Why is deception not a problem in Lineland?
4. What do circles do to their young?
5. Where does A. Square travel in his dream?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain A. Square's login that a Fourth dimension must exist.
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. What does A. Square feel is improper regarding the relationship between Circles and Women, and concerning the relationship between men and women in general?
4. 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?
5. 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.
6. Explain how the inhabitant of Pointland views his world.
7. Describe the scene between A. Square and his grandson in Chapter 15, and summarize the grandson's argument for a third dimension.
8. Explain the primary focus of Circles in Chapter 12, and the reasoning behind that focus.
9. Describe the evolution of Circles, and be sure to include both natural evolution and artificial evolution.
10. What methods does A. Square use to attempt to explain two dimensional space? Summarize the information he explains to the King.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the book, there are several methods of recognition discussed including sound, sight, and feel. Compare the methods explained in the book to our own methods using the same senses. How are they the same? How do they differ? If you were to lose two of these senses, do you think the remaining one would be accurate 100 percent of the time?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 9, Abbott discusses the role of women in the near-passage of the Universal Color Bill. Discuss why women wanted the bill to pass, and why they would stand to benefit. Think of an event in history that women helped to shape, and compare the gains of the women in Flatland to the women in your example. Do the women stand to gain in the same ways? Do they differ? How?
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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