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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. What shape are women?
(a) Straight lines
(b) Circles
(c) Squares
(d) Equilateral triangles

2. Why is hearing only used on occasion as a recognition method?
(a) Lower classes cannot make sounds.
(b) All classes sound the same.
(c) Lower classes can imitate higher classes.
(d) Higher classes cannot speak.

3. What happens to a man who "runs against" a woman?
(a) He is killed immediately.
(b) He is put into prison.
(c) He immediately kills her.
(d) He falls in love instantly.

4. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is temporal.
(b) It is spatial.
(c) It is unstable.
(d) It is stable.

5. What effect did the end of this method have on the classes?
(a) There was no effect.
(b) The classes became further separated.
(c) There was a war between the classes.
(d) All classes became closer to equal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What power do women have in Flatland that makes them even more deadly?

2. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?

3. How do families rise in standing?

4. Why were women in support of the bill?

5. What does the editor say is the second objection to the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused women to turn against the color bill?

2. Why does Hoffman believe the development of the fourth dimension does not lessen the lessons of the book?

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

4. What is the law of nature that helps protect the upper class? Which law of nature do Circles use to help stifle agitation?

5. Explain the basic process of evolution, as described in Chapter 3.

6. What appears to be the reasoning behind the need for the preface of this novel?

7. Explain why Hoffman believes Abbott was afraid the writing of the book may tarnish his other writings.

8. Explain the overall shape of a woman in Flatland, and why such a shape is detrimental?

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

10. Discuss at least two ways the inhabitants of Flatland attempt to alter natural evolution.

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