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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the primary focus of priests?
(a) Raise a family.
(b) Attend higher education.
(c) Attend to their configuration.
(d) Become involved in government.

3. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?
(a) The result will be more public accidents.
(b) The result will be a lesser male intellect.
(c) The result will be more accidents in the home.
(d) The result will be a lack of communication.

4. What hinders A. Square's writing?
(a) There is no mathematical equivalent.
(b) Their are only tablets to write with.
(c) There are diagrams.
(d) There are only lines to write with.

5. How many inhabitants are there of Pointland?
(a) Infinite
(b) Fifty
(c) One
(d) Two

6. What was A. Square's grandson's reward for his work with sight recognition?
(a) A cookie
(b) Money
(c) A song
(d) Hints in geometry

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

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

9. What do all inhabitants of Lineland see?
(a) A single point
(b) Shapes
(c) Nothing
(d) Lines and points

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

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

12. What does A. Square do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Understands the lesson.
(b) Cries.
(c) Leaves the room.
(d) Attacks the stranger.

13. What shape does the stranger use to teach about solids?
(a) A cube
(b) A sphere
(c) A straight line
(d) A triangle

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

15. What does the line claim to be?
(a) The King
(b) A Prince
(c) A Priest
(d) The Queen

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to A. Square when he finally tells of his adventures?

2. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?

3. What does A. Square ask for that he cannot be shown?

4. What do circles do to their young?

5. How does A. Square know he is to be punished for his views?

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