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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 happens to a line as it gets closer in Flatland?
(a) It gets smaller.
(b) It gets larger.
(c) It gets thicker.
(d) It gets thinner.
2. How long did the color movement continue?
(a) Three years
(b) Four years
(c) One year
(d) Two years
3. What happens to leaders of rebellions of lower classes who are nearly regular shaped?
(a) They are allowed to live among the lower class to provide hope.
(b) They are placed into State Hospitals.
(c) They are reshaped and adopted into higher classes.
(d) They are killed.
4. What does the editor defend against at the end of the preface?
(a) The author's presentation of Triangles
(b) The author's presentation of Pentagons
(c) The author's presentation of Squares
(d) The author's presentation of Circles
5. What happens to a line as it gets further away in Flatland?
(a) It gets smaller.
(b) It gets larger.
(c) It gets thinner.
(d) It gets thicker.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to the most irregular shapes?
2. What does the editor say is the first objection to the novel?
3. From which direction does rain fall?
4. What is the third unrecognized dimension in Flatland?
5. What object that helps sight in Spaceland does not exist in Flatland?
Short Essay Questions
1. Based on the end of the Preface, what is the author attempting to say about the ruling class of his time?
2. What is Hoffman's belief about the relatability of the characters in the novel?
3. 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.
4. What are the three rules created for women, in order to protect society? What are the rules in the strictest society?
5. What tools do inhabitants use to discern direction in Flatland?
6. How is the temper of women useful in ridding society of the most brutal of the Isosceles class?
7. What is the author's primary defense against the idea that those in Flatland should recognize thickness, and infer a dimension?
8. Summarize A. Square's example of how to imagine how inhabitants of Flatland see one another.
9. What is the law of nature that helps protect the upper class? Which law of nature do Circles use to help stifle agitation?
10. Explain the overall shape of a woman in Flatland, and why such a shape is detrimental?
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