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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does A. Square attempt to prove he can see in Lineland?
(a) By explaining that he can see lines and points.
(b) By describing a straight line.
(c) By explaining the number of each sex next to the king.
(d) By describing a circle.

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

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

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

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

6. What does the shape claim to be?
(a) Many circles in one
(b) Many triangles in one
(c) Many hexagons in one
(d) Many squares in one

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

8. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?
(a) Sight
(b) Touch
(c) Sound
(d) Smell

9. Upon waking, who does A. Square plan to educate about dimensions?
(a) His wife
(b) His daughter
(c) The Council
(d) His grandson

10. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?
(a) Equilateral
(b) Pentagons
(c) Circles
(d) Squares

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

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

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

14. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?
(a) His size and brightness change.
(b) He is a square.
(c) He is a criminal.
(d) His color changes.

15. What does the stranger say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is inconceivable.
(b) It is real.
(c) It does not exist.
(d) It is easy to travel through.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does A. Square travel in his dream?

3. What does the line claim to be?

4. What does A. Square tell his wife has happened?

5. What is the third deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

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