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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 A. Square do at the end of the chapter?

2. What happens as the race of circles climbs higher in development?

3. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?

4. What does A. Square discover about the stranger when he is allowed to feel his body?

5. What is believed to cause deviance?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. Describe what happens that leads to the imprisonment of A. Square.

7. Describe the Circle Class physically, and in terms of their role in society.

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

9. What method does A. Square next attempt to use to describe the Fourth Dimension? Why does he find it difficult?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Flatland, children are often punished as a result of their parent's wishes. Choose one of the following, and discuss what happens to these children in the novel. Is such treatment justified? Why or why not? Does modern society punish the children as a result of parental wishes? How?

1.) Young shapes are surgically altered to create more sides.

2.) Children who fail exams are shunned in society.

3.) Irregular children are used as specimens in schools.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the King of Pointland, the King of Lineland, A. Square, and the Sphere, including their general characteristics as well as their overall personalities. What are their similarities? What are their differences?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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