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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 does the stranger use to teach about solids?
(a) A sphere
(b) A straight line
(c) A cube
(d) A triangle

2. How does A. Square know he is to be punished for his views?
(a) His brother informs him.
(b) His children are removed from the home.
(c) The Council substitutes smaller angled soldiers to oversee proceedings.
(d) He sees his wife being taken away.

3. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?
(a) Because if it were, the criminals of Spaceland would be the Gods of Flatland.
(b) Because if it were, everyone in Flatland would be a God.
(c) Because God's do not exist.
(d) Because if it were, no one would be God.

4. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?
(a) His color changes.
(b) He is a square.
(c) He is a criminal.
(d) His size and brightness change.

5. What is A. Square's first impression of Spaceland.
(a) It is not real.
(b) It is ugly.
(c) It is madness or hell.
(d) It is beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who controls Flatland?

2. Why does A. Square call the stranger his "lordship"?

3. What is the final fate for A. Square?

4. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?

5. What is A. Square's first question about Spaceland?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the shapes of Lineland in Chapter 13, and their existence in terms of movement and marriage.

2. Why does A. Square attack the Circle at the end of Chapter 16? Who does A. Square remind you of at this point, and why?

3. Explain the only recognition method used in Flatland, and why touch and sight are not used.

4. Explain A. Square's argument that he is now God, and Sphere's rebuttal in Chapter 18.

5. What does the grandson hear outside the window in Chapter 21? Why does he become afraid? What does this fear cause him to reject?

6. Explain why A. Square chooses his grandson to be the student for his lesson about the Fourth Dimension, and why he doesn't choose another student.

7. What situation leads to the taking of A. Square into Spaceland at the end of Chapter 17?

8. Explain why A. Square had to be sure to be in a certain position in order to speak to the King of Lineland. What would the King have experienced if A. Square had not done this?

9. Describe the evolution of Circles, and be sure to include both natural evolution and artificial evolution.

10. What does A. Square feel is improper regarding the relationship between Circles and Women, and concerning the relationship between men and women in general?

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