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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, How the Stranger Vainly Endeavored to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Pantocyclus tell the workmen they would have to accept?
(a) Their ambitions for military work would be abolished.
(b) Their ambitions for public office would be abolished.
(c) Their ambitions for priesthood would be abolished.
(d) Their ambitions for higher classes would be abolished.

2. After the war, who is still allowed to make color?
(a) The intellectuals
(b) The Chief Circle
(c) Criminals
(d) Women

3. What is customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?
(a) Never leave the house
(b) Never leave their apartments
(c) Face their husbands
(d) Never speak to their husbands

4. What does the shape of women prevent?
(a) Walking
(b) Swimming
(c) Childbirth
(d) Spontaneous passion

5. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?
(a) His color changes.
(b) His size and brightness change.
(c) He is a criminal.
(d) He is a square.

Short Answer Questions

1. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?

2. Why does A. Square call the stranger his "lordship"?

3. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?

4. How long did the color movement continue?

5. Who is Pantocyclus?

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