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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Concerning Irregular Figures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Equilateral triangle look like in Flatland?
(a) A single point
(b) An Equilateral triangle
(c) A straight line
(d) A curved line

2. How can inhabitants conceive of angles?
(a) They see them.
(b) They don't understand angles.
(c) They infer them.
(d) They understand the mathematics behind them.

3. What shapes are included in the Priestly order?
(a) Triangles
(b) Squares
(c) Straight lines
(d) Circles

4. Who is the editor, in reality, who wrote the Preface?
(a) Paul Kennedy
(b) Edward Abbott
(c) A. Square
(d) Banesh Hoffman

5. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?
(a) They are less intelligent.
(b) They breed with one another and give birth to irregulars.
(c) They cannot work.
(d) They cannot have children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Edwin Abbott's primary interests?

2. How do families rise in standing?

3. Under what name was Flatland originally published?

4. What does the editor note that A. Square wishes the readers of Flatland would understand?

5. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?

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