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

2. Who is Pantocyclus?
(a) The leader of the lower class
(b) The Chief Circle
(c) The young woman's father
(d) A. Square's father

3. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?
(a) Such actions result in higher birth rates.
(b) Such actions result in the death of more men.
(c) Such actions result in the death of more women.
(d) Such actions result in higher suicide rates.

4. What do upper class women do that lower class women try to imitate?
(a) Dance with rhythm
(b) Move their backsides with rhythm
(c) Move their heads with rhythm
(d) Sing with rhythm

5. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?
(a) They are very strong.
(b) They are pointed on both ends.
(c) They are very smart.
(d) They have three pointed sides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a man who "runs against" a woman?

2. After the war, who is still allowed to make color?

3. What ended the women's support of the bill?

4. What army did the Isosceles defeat?

5. What dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?

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