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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the stranger do to A. Square at the end of the chapter?
(a) Throws him from Spaceland.
(b) Places him in Pointland.
(c) Places him in the Fourth Dimension.
(d) Places him in Lineland.

2. What are women not taught to do?
(a) Read
(b) Speak
(c) Walk
(d) Drive

3. How does A. Square attack the stranger?
(a) With a gun
(b) With his hardest right angle
(c) With his hands
(d) With a knife

4. What does A. Square point out about the King's space?
(a) It is a square.
(b) It is a line.
(c) It is a plane.
(d) It is a circle.

5. What shape does the grandson almost grasp?
(a) A triangle
(b) A circle
(c) A cube
(d) A line

6. What method of recognition is considered illegal?
(a) Sight
(b) Sound
(c) Smell
(d) Touch

7. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?
(a) Nothing, since he doesn't hear it
(b) The voice of the Sphere
(c) His own
(d) The voice of God

8. 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.

9. What prohibits A. Square's student from learning?
(a) The level of intelligence needed
(b) The knowledge of mathematics needed
(c) The laws of nature
(d) The proclamation by the Council

10. What is A. Square's first question about Spaceland?
(a) Why everything is dark.
(b) Why he can see the stranger's insides.
(c) Why everything is bright.
(d) Why he cannot see the stranger's insides.

11. How does A. Square next attempt to explain the third dimension?
(a) Through personal experience
(b) Through speech
(c) Through writing
(d) Through demonstration

12. How does marriage occur in Lineland?
(a) When two individuals fall in love.
(b) When a man's voice matches with that of two women.
(c) Marriage doesn't happen in Lineland.
(d) When a woman's voice matches with that of two men.

13. What does the stranger show A. Square first?
(a) A. Square's own home
(b) The entire world of Flatland
(c) A true cube
(d) The stranger's home

14. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?
(a) Disrespecting the Chief Circle
(b) Disrespecting himself
(c) Disrespecting her
(d) Disrespecting his grandson

15. What does A. Square tell his wife has happened?
(a) He says he was dreaming.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) He tells her of Spaceland.
(d) He says he fell.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does A. Square attempt to prove he can see in Lineland?

2. What does the Sphere admit at the end of the chapter?

3. What does the Sphere point out about being self-content?

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

5. What does A. Square do at the end of the chapter?

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