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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. Why does the State believe that aristocratic children who fail exams should be killed?
(a) They cannot have children.
(b) They are less intelligent.
(c) They breed with one another and give birth to irregulars.
(d) They cannot work.
2. What does the editor compare Flatland's third dimension to in Spaceland?
(a) The fifth dimension
(b) The first dimension
(c) The second dimension
(d) The fourth dimension
3. Where are readers assumed to live?
(a) Timeland
(b) Pointland
(c) Spaceland
(d) Earthland
4. The first law for women is;
(a) They must enter houses on the North side.
(b) They must enter houses on the West side.
(c) They must enter houses on the South side.
(d) They must enter houses on the East side.
5. From which direction do women enter houses?
(a) None, as directions don't exist in Flatland
(b) West
(c) East
(d) South
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a man expected to do when meeting a woman on the street?
2. What group showed the most amazing display of color?
3. What does Hoffman say about the characters of Flatland?
4. Why does the author call the land he writes about Flatland?
5. How many points are on a compass in Flatland?
Short Essay Questions
1. What example does A. Square use to show his reasoning behind the need for regularity of shape?
2. Summarize A. Square's example of how to imagine how inhabitants of Flatland see one another.
3. Name some features of the houses of Flatland.
4. Explain how sound is used to recognize lower shape classes, and why such a method cannot be used by the upper class.
5. Explain the basic process of evolution, as described in Chapter 3.
6. In Chapter 5, A. Square explains how the Law of Nature provides an alphabet of angles through the birth of irregular angles and shapes. Explain what is done with irregular specimens in Flatland. Be sure to include small angle shapes in your discussion.
7. What are some of the characteristics of women in Chapter 5?
8. Summarize A. Square's explanation of Flatland.
9. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?
10. Why does Hoffman believe the development of the fourth dimension does not lessen the lessons of the book?
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