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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 do all inhabitants of Lineland see?
(a) A single point
(b) Nothing
(c) Lines and points
(d) Shapes

2. What prohibits A. Square's student from learning?
(a) The knowledge of mathematics needed
(b) The level of intelligence needed
(c) The proclamation by the Council
(d) The laws of nature

3. Why is deception not a problem in Lineland?
(a) The inhabitants cannot change their voice.
(b) The inhabitants cannot change their angles.
(c) The inhabitants cannot change their smell.
(d) The inhabitants cannot change their shape.

4. What is the final fate for A. Square?
(a) He is banished from the town.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is committed to an asylum.
(d) He is imprisoned for life.

5. What are women not taught to do?
(a) Read
(b) Speak
(c) Walk
(d) Drive

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does A. Square asked to be taken, after the stranger's explanation of those who believe in the fourth dimension?

2. What happens as the race of circles climbs higher in development?

3. What does the small creature of Pointland believe A. Square's voice to be?

4. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?

5. What is the first deed the stranger does to prove his point of third dimensions?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Explain how the inhabitant of Pointland views his world.

3. What methods does A. Square use to attempt to explain two dimensional space? Summarize the information he explains to the King.

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

5. Explain A. Square's login that a Fourth dimension must exist.

6. What method does A. Square next attempt to use to describe the Fourth Dimension? Why does he find it difficult?

7. Describe the Circle Class physically, and in terms of their role in society.

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

9. How does the Circle attempt to prove in Chapter 17 to A. Square he is telling the truth? Why is this nearly convincing?

10. 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?

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