Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What classes are able to use this method?
(a) Upper classes
(b) All classes
(c) Only circles
(d) Lower classes
2. Why were women in support of the bill?
(a) They believed it would make them more attractive.
(b) They believed it would make them more intelligent.
(c) They wanted style.
(d) Their status would increase.
3. What adverse effect did the new wave of color have?
(a) There was an increase in crime.
(b) There was a decline in reproduction.
(c) There was an increase in mortality rates.
(d) There was a decline in intellectual pursuit.
4. Who was the first person to invent color?
(a) Chromatistes
(b) Chromoto
(c) Chromaticon
(d) Chromatosis
5. What work are irregular shapes allowed to have?
(a) Teachers
(b) Doctors
(c) Tradesmen
(d) Government positions
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the second means of recognition in Flatland?
2. What does the editor say is his third reason for writing the preface?
3. On what does the civilization of Flatland depend?
4. What does Hoffman say about the fourth dimension?
5. Why does the author call the land he writes about Flatland?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the use of color in the military of Flatland.
2. Based on the end of the Preface, what is the author attempting to say about the ruling class of his time?
3. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?
4. Why does Hoffman believe the development of the fourth dimension does not lessen the lessons of the book?
5. What happened when the Circles regained power following defeat of the color bill? Please be specific.
6. Explain the shape of workmen and soldiers, women, the middle class, the professionals, and noblemen, or priests.
7. Name some features of the houses of Flatland.
8. What occurred when individuals began to question where light came from?
9. What was the Universal Color Bill, and why did women support it?
10. In Chapter 1, what does A. Square compare sight in Flatland to in the three dimensional world, Spaceland, and what is the comparison?
|
This section contains 873 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
