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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 changes A. Square's mind about who to educate first?
(a) He cannot seem to recall the information as clearly.
(b) He is afraid of imprisonment.
(c) He realizes women are too dim to understand.
(d) He is afraid of divorce.

2. Who does A. Square decide is fit for his lesson?
(a) His son
(b) His daughter
(c) His grandson
(d) The Council

3. How do the inhabitants of Lineland comprehend distance?
(a) Sound
(b) Sight
(c) Touch
(d) Smell

4. What does the stranger say about the fourth dimension?
(a) It is easy to travel through.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It is inconceivable.
(d) It is real.

5. What is a circle in Flatland?
(a) A term for anyone higher than a woman
(b) A true circle, with no sides
(c) A polygon with many sides
(d) A term for anyone higher than a triangle

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does A. Square point out about the King's space?

3. What begins at the end of the chapter?

4. What class is most likely to marry a woman with irregular ancestry?

5. How does the stranger defend his idea that omnipotence is not a quality of Gods?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss how complacency is viewed by Sphere.

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

4. The Circle attempts to use an analogy to explain three dimensional space to A. Square in Chapter 16. Summarize this analogy.

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. What does A. Square's wife do to the Circle at the end of the chapter? Why does she become afraid and embarrassed?

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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