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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The third law for women is:
(a) Any female found in public is immediately killed.
(b) Any female who speaks out against a man is immediately killed.
(c) Any female found to be infertile is immediately killed.
(d) Any female with involuntary actions is to be immediately killed.

2. What happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?
(a) It gets larger.
(b) It gets thicker.
(c) It gets thinner.
(d) It gets smaller.

3. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?
(a) They can make themselves invisible.
(b) They can change into other forms.
(c) They can see further than any other form.
(d) They can move very quickly.

4. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Tradesmen
(b) Government positions
(c) Teachers
(d) Doctors

5. Why are there no windows in houses of Flatland?
(a) Because light doesn't exist inside.
(b) Because light comes only from inside houses.
(c) Because light is always present and constant.
(d) Because light comes from the South.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?

2. What does A. Square blame for the inhabitants' inability to discern North in the normal way?

3. What object that helps sight in Spaceland does not exist in Flatland?

4. What does the shape of women prevent?

5. What does Hoffman say about the characters of Flatland?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what does A. Square compare sight in Flatland to in the three dimensional world, Spaceland, and what is the comparison?

2. What is the author's primary defense against the idea that those in Flatland should recognize thickness, and infer a dimension?

3. Explain how sound is used to recognize lower shape classes, and why such a method cannot be used by the upper class.

4. What was the Universal Color Bill, and why did women support it?

5. What happens to irregular figures? Be sure to discuss all irregulars, including those with highly irregular figures.

6. Name some features of the houses of Flatland.

7. Summarize A. Square's example of how to imagine how inhabitants of Flatland see one another.

8. What is Hoffman's belief about the relatability of the characters in the novel?

9. What does Hoffman mean when he calls the novel timeless in the Introduction?

10. What tools do inhabitants use to discern direction in Flatland?

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