Flatland Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Flatland Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens to a line as it gets further away in Flatland?
(a) It gets smaller.
(b) It gets larger.
(c) It gets thinner.
(d) It gets thicker.

4. What happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?
(a) It gets thicker.
(b) It gets smaller.
(c) It gets larger.
(d) It gets thinner.

5. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?
(a) The fifth dimension
(b) The fourth dimension
(c) The first dimension
(d) The second dimension

6. What do inhabitants of Flatland see?
(a) Solids
(b) Circles
(c) Triangles and Squares
(d) Straight lines

7. What shape of houses is not allowed?
(a) Triangle
(b) Circle
(c) Pentagon
(d) Oval

8. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?
(a) Critics
(b) Space
(c) Time
(d) Boredom

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

10. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?
(a) They can change into other forms.
(b) They can move very quickly.
(c) They can make themselves invisible.
(d) They can see further than any other form.

11. What does the State do with smaller angle specimens used for teaching tools?
(a) They are dissected.
(b) They are not fed, and thus killed.
(c) They are paid well.
(d) They are used as food for higher angle specimens.

12. Why is this shape of house not allowed?
(a) The curved exterior would be difficult to discern.
(b) The rain would not properly run off, causing death.
(c) The sharp angle may hurt someone.
(d) There could be no door for women.

13. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Teachers
(b) Doctors
(c) Tradesmen
(d) Government positions

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

15. What is the third unrecognized dimension in Flatland?
(a) Weight
(b) Time
(c) Height
(d) Space

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape are soldiers?

2. What was Edwin Abbott's field of interest?

3. What happens to the trade man in the author's example of problems with irregular shapes?

4. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?

5. From which direction do women enter houses?

(see the answer keys)

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