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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 does the wife originally believe the shape that appears in the house is?
(a) A circle
(b) A triangle
(c) A square
(d) A woman
2. What does A. Square first notice about the stranger?
(a) He is a criminal.
(b) His size and brightness change.
(c) His color changes.
(d) He is a square.
3. Why is deception not a problem in Lineland?
(a) The inhabitants cannot change their angles.
(b) The inhabitants cannot change their shape.
(c) The inhabitants cannot change their voice.
(d) The inhabitants cannot change their smell.
4. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?
(a) Nothing, since he doesn't hear it
(b) His own
(c) The voice of God
(d) The voice of the Sphere
5. What do those in power actually do?
(a) All things relating to religion
(b) All things relating to government
(c) Nothing
(d) Everything
Short Answer Questions
1. What is believed to cause deviance?
2. What hinders A. Square's writing?
3. What is the final fate for A. Square?
4. What does the Sphere admit at the end of the chapter?
5. Why does A. Square become saddened?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Circle Class physically, and in terms of their role in society.
2. Describe the evolution of Circles, and be sure to include both natural evolution and artificial evolution.
3. Explain A. Square's argument that he is now God, and Sphere's rebuttal in Chapter 18.
4. Why does the Sphere throw A. Square from Spaceland at the end of Chapter 19? Who does Sphere remind you of at this point, and why?
5. What does A. Square feel is improper regarding the relationship between Circles and Women, and concerning the relationship between men and women in general?
6. The Circle attempts to use an analogy to explain three dimensional space to A. Square in Chapter 16. Summarize this analogy.
7. What methods does A. Square use to attempt to explain two dimensional space? Summarize the information he explains to the King.
8. How does the Circle attempt to prove in Chapter 17 to A. Square he is telling the truth? Why is this nearly convincing?
9. 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.
10. Explain the shapes of Lineland in Chapter 13, and their existence in terms of movement and marriage.
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