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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group showed the most amazing display of color?
(a) The Military
(b) Circles
(c) The Woman
(d) Intellectuals

2. How do families rise in standing?
(a) Each generation is born with one new side.
(b) Each generation is born with one less side.
(c) They do not; statuses are unchangeable in Flatland.
(d) Each generation is educated in a more superior manner.

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

4. Why is deception not a problem in Lineland?
(a) The inhabitants cannot change their voice.
(b) The inhabitants cannot change their angles.
(c) The inhabitants cannot change their smell.
(d) The inhabitants cannot change their shape.

5. What happens to a man who "runs against" a woman?
(a) He immediately kills her.
(b) He is put into prison.
(c) He is killed immediately.
(d) He falls in love instantly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?

2. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?

3. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?

4. What happens to leaders of rebellions of lower classes who are nearly regular shaped?

5. What shape are women?

(see the answer key)

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