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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 dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?
2. How does A. Square know he is to be punished for his views?
3. What does the line claim to be?
4. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
5. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does A. Square's wife do to the Circle at the end of the chapter? Why does she become afraid and embarrassed?
2. What method does A. Square next attempt to use to describe the Fourth Dimension? Why does he find it difficult?
3. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.
4. What does A. Square feel is improper regarding the relationship between Circles and Women, and concerning the relationship between men and women in general?
5. Explain how the inhabitant of Pointland views his world.
6. What does the grandson hear outside the window in Chapter 21? Why does he become afraid? What does this fear cause him to reject?
7. Describe the scene between A. Square and his grandson in Chapter 15, and summarize the grandson's argument for a third dimension.
8. 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?
9. Explain A. Square's argument that he is now God, and Sphere's rebuttal in Chapter 18.
10. Describe the Circle Class physically, and in terms of their role in society.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Flatland, Abbott uses shapes as representations of individuals within his own society. Choose three shapes from Flatland, and discuss how they relate to the true groups such shapes represent. Be sure to include such concepts as class, intellectual pursuit, and power.
Essay Topic 2
In Flatland, only the upper class have rights to certain privileges. Discuss at least two examples of such privileges. Do you think the upper class in modern society has more privileges than the lower classes? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Circles in Flatland strive to achieve a higher shape, and thereby a higher position in society. Explain three ways Circles attempt to improve their shape. What do these changes symbolize in the real world? Do you believe that attaining a higher status in life should be a primary goal? If so, why? If not, what should be a primary goal?
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