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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?
(a) Triangles
(b) Women
(c) Squares
(d) Circles pretending to be women

2. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He drops below Flatland.
(b) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(c) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
(d) He rises above Flatland.

3. What does the stranger threaten he will do if A. Square does not let go?
(a) He will take him to Pointland.
(b) He will kill him.
(c) He will take him to Lineland.
(d) He will take him to Spaceland.

4. What does A. Square discover about the stranger when he is allowed to feel his body?
(a) The stranger is a straight line.
(b) The stranger has many angles.
(c) The stranger has no shape.
(d) The stranger has no angles.

5. What happens as the race of circles climbs higher in development?
(a) They become less fertile.
(b) They become more fertile.
(c) They become more intelligent.
(d) They become less intelligent.

6. In Spaceland, what is valued highest: intellect, emotion, money, or faith?
(a) Faith
(b) Money
(c) Intellect
(d) Emotion

7. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?
(a) Ignores them.
(b) Banishes them from Flatland.
(c) Asks them to teach in schools.
(d) Kills or imprisons them.

8. What begins at the end of the chapter?
(a) The third millennium
(b) The fourth millennium
(c) The second millennium
(d) The first millennium

9. What fear does the stranger have as A. Square calls for help?
(a) The others will kill him.
(b) That others will see the Third Dimension.
(c) The others will imprison him.
(d) The others will not believe him.

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

11. What does A. Square say about true space?
(a) It is a square.
(b) It is a line.
(c) It is a plane.
(d) It is a circle.

12. What is the final fate for A. Square?
(a) He is killed.
(b) He is imprisoned for life.
(c) He is committed to an asylum.
(d) He is banished from the town.

13. What is the second deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) He rises above Flatland to describe neighboring occurrences.
(b) He moves objects without appearing to touch them.
(c) He pokes A. Square in the stomach.
(d) He drops below Flatland to describe the ground.

14. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?
(a) Removes a tablet from a cupboard without opening the door.
(b) Rises above Flatland.
(c) Writes the situation out mathematically.
(d) Removes dishes from the sink.

15. Who controls Flatland?
(a) The Women
(b) The Priests
(c) All individuals equally
(d) The Men

Short Answer Questions

1. How does marriage occur in Lineland?

2. What does the line claim to be?

3. What do those in power actually do?

4. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?

5. Where does A. Square asked to be taken, after the stranger's explanation of those who believe in the fourth dimension?

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