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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?
(a) A square
(b) A circle
(c) A woman
(d) A triangle

2. What is the average perimeter of a circle?
(a) Five feet
(b) Two feet
(c) Twenty feet
(d) Three feet

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

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

5. What is the result of the lesson?
(a) The student accuses A. Square of insanity.
(b) The student turns A. Square in to the Council.
(c) The student leaves the room.
(d) The student understands.

6. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
(a) Because if it were, no one would be God.
(b) Because if it were, the criminals of Spaceland would be the Gods of Flatland.
(c) Because God's do not exist.
(d) Because if it were, everyone in Flatland would be a God.

7. What do circles do to their young?
(a) Place them in boarding schools.
(b) Break their frame to reshape them with fewer sides.
(c) Prepare them for higher education.
(d) Break their frame to reshape them with more sides.

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

9. How does A. Square know he is to be punished for his views?
(a) His brother informs him.
(b) He sees his wife being taken away.
(c) His children are removed from the home.
(d) The Council substitutes smaller angled soldiers to oversee proceedings.

10. Why does A. Square call the stranger his "lordship"?
(a) He believes the stranger is a king.
(b) He believes the stranger is a perfect circle.
(c) He believes the stranger is his boss.
(d) He believes the stranger is the Chief Circle.

11. Why does A. Square believe his sons will not understand?
(a) They are Council members.
(b) They are not good with mathematics.
(c) They are not intelligent.
(d) They are triangles.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does A. Square become saddened?

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

3. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?

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

5. What does A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?

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