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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What shape are the middle class members?
(a) Straight lines
(b) Equilateral triangles
(c) Isosceles triangles
(d) Squares
2. What physical trait makes women in Flatland dangerous?
(a) They are very smart.
(b) They have three pointed sides.
(c) They are pointed on both ends.
(d) They are very strong.
3. What group showed the most amazing display of color?
(a) Circles
(b) Intellectuals
(c) The Woman
(d) The Military
4. What does the shape of women prevent?
(a) Spontaneous passion
(b) Swimming
(c) Walking
(d) Childbirth
5. What can inhabitants of Flatland NOT do?
(a) Rise above or beneath the surface
(b) Move south
(c) Move sideways
(d) Move north
6. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?
(a) They can see further than any other form.
(b) They can change into other forms.
(c) They can make themselves invisible.
(d) They can move very quickly.
7. What shape are nobility members?
(a) Straight lines
(b) Hexagons
(c) Circles
(d) Squares
8. What army did the Isosceles defeat?
(a) The Polygons
(b) The Circles
(c) The Women
(d) The Right Triangles
9. What does Hoffman admit Abbott succeeded in defeating?
(a) Boredom
(b) Time
(c) Critics
(d) Space
10. What is the first means of recognition in Flatland?
(a) Touch
(b) Sight
(c) Smell
(d) Hearing
11. What do upper class women do that lower class women try to imitate?
(a) Move their heads with rhythm
(b) Sing with rhythm
(c) Dance with rhythm
(d) Move their backsides with rhythm
12. How did the Legislature finally stop individuals from trying to find the source of light in Flatland?
(a) They sent those who questioned to prison.
(b) They taxed them until they stopped asking questions.
(c) They told them the light was from God.
(d) They prohibited the question entirely.
13. What happens to a man who "runs against" a woman?
(a) He is killed immediately.
(b) He falls in love instantly.
(c) He immediately kills her.
(d) He is put into prison.
14. What is customary for women in upper class homes to do at all times?
(a) Never speak to their husbands
(b) Never leave the house
(c) Never leave their apartments
(d) Face their husbands
15. Why does the author call the land he writes about Flatland?
(a) Because it is flat
(b) Because that is what locals call it
(c) To make it easier to distinguish for readers
(d) To make it easier for him to write about
Short Answer Questions
1. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
2. What does the "pull" in Flatland represent in Spaceland?
3. Why are there no windows in houses of Flatland?
4. How long did the color movement continue?
5. What does A. Square say about the laws regarding irregulars?
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