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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, How I Came to Spaceland and What I Saw There.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have the priests discovered about increasing laws against women that force them to be confined at home?
(a) Such actions result in higher suicide 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 birth rates.

2. What does the editor say is his second reason for writing the preface?
(a) To introduce the novel
(b) To thank readers and critics in Spaceland
(c) To apologize for errors and misprints
(d) To explain misconceptions

3. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?
(a) Allow her to pass to the West.
(b) Allow her to pass to the East.
(c) Allow her to pass to the North.
(d) Allow her to pass to the South.

4. How is the regularity of women monitored?
(a) Through annual visits
(b) Through feeling
(c) Through their own word
(d) By pedigrees

5. What does Hoffman say is the fourth dimension?
(a) Time
(b) Space
(c) Sound
(d) Movement

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hoffman, what is the goal of the novel?

2. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?

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

4. What method of recognition was no longer taught?

5. The author notes these individuals have a similar experience in Spaceland that helps explain what things look like in Flatland.

(see the answer key)

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