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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 shape claim to be?
(a) Many triangles in one
(b) Many circles in one
(c) Many squares in one
(d) Many hexagons in one

2. What happens to A. Square when he finally tells of his adventures?
(a) He is imprisoned for life.
(b) He is brought before students to teach.
(c) He is believed to be a God.
(d) He is arrested and taken before the Council.

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

4. At the end of the chapter, what does A. Square hear that the Council does to individuals who speak of the Third dimension?
(a) Asks them to teach in schools.
(b) Banishes them from Flatland.
(c) Kills or imprisons them.
(d) Ignores them.

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. What changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?

2. Who controls Flatland?

3. Who does A. Square decide is fit for his lesson?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the primary focus of Circles in Chapter 12, and the reasoning behind that focus.

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. Describe what happens that leads to the imprisonment of A. Square.

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

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

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

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