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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 method of recognition is considered illegal?
2. What is the primary focus of priests?
3. Who controls Flatland?
4. Why does A. Square call the stranger his "lordship"?
5. What is A. Square's first question about Spaceland?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.
2. What methods does A. Square use to attempt to explain two dimensional space? Summarize the information he explains to the King.
3. 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?
4. What situation leads to the taking of A. Square into Spaceland at the end of Chapter 17?
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. What does A. Square feel is improper regarding the relationship between Circles and Women, and concerning the relationship between men and women in general?
7. Describe the evolution of Circles, and be sure to include both natural evolution and artificial evolution.
8. What does A. Square's wife do to the Circle at the end of the chapter? Why does she become afraid and embarrassed?
9. Explain A. Square's argument that he is now God, and Sphere's rebuttal in Chapter 18.
10. Why does A. Square attack the Circle at the end of Chapter 16? Who does A. Square remind you of at this point, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout Flatland, there are several examples of biases within the legal system, such as the killing of policemen witnessing the arrival of the Sphere while the higher class Squares are imprisoned. Discuss at least two examples of such biases. What do you think Abbott was trying to say about the relationship between class and justice? Do you believe his points are still valid today? Why or why not? Be sure to support your answer with both concepts from the book and your own experiences.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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