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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 A. Square believe the straight lines in his dream to be?
(a) Squares
(b) Triangles
(c) Women
(d) Circles pretending to be women

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

3. What does A. Square's wife yell at A. Square for in this chapter?
(a) Disrespecting his grandson
(b) Disrespecting her
(c) Disrespecting himself
(d) Disrespecting the Chief Circle

4. What dimension does the stranger attempt to explain?
(a) The Third dimension
(b) The Fourth dimension
(c) The Second dimension
(d) The First dimension

5. What does the stranger show A. Square first?
(a) A true cube
(b) The entire world of Flatland
(c) The stranger's home
(d) A. Square's own home

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does A. Square believe his sons will not understand?

2. How does marriage occur in Lineland?

3. What does A. Square fear about this lack of training?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene between A. Square and his grandson in Chapter 15, and summarize the grandson's argument for a third dimension.

2. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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