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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hoffman say about the characters of Flatland?

2. How long did the color movement continue?

3. What can men do when women are in their apartments?

4. What is the editor's defense of the first objection?

5. How did the Legislature finally stop individuals from trying to find the source of light in Flatland?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Hoffman believes Abbott was afraid the writing of the book may tarnish his other writings.

2. What happens to aristocratic children who fail exams, and as a result, what does the State feel should happen?

3. What is the author's primary defense against the idea that A. Square hates women?

4. What are some of the characteristics of women in Chapter 5?

5. Summarize A. Square's explanation of Flatland.

6. Explain how sight recognition is used in upper classes, and why such a method cannot be used for the lower class.

7. What was the Universal Color Bill, and why did women support it?

8. Summarize A. Square's example of how to imagine how inhabitants of Flatland see one another.

9. Discuss at least two ways the inhabitants of Flatland attempt to alter natural evolution.

10. In Chapter 1, what does A. Square compare sight in Flatland to in the three dimensional world, Spaceland, and what is the comparison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Flatland, children are often punished as a result of their parent's wishes. Choose one of the following, and discuss what happens to these children in the novel. Is such treatment justified? Why or why not? Does modern society punish the children as a result of parental wishes? How?

1.) Young shapes are surgically altered to create more sides.

2.) Children who fail exams are shunned in society.

3.) Irregular children are used as specimens in schools.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 7, A. Square explains what happens to individuals who are shaped irregularly. Discuss the consequences of irregularity in Flatland. Does our society have similar punishments for those who deviate from the norm? Explain your answer by discussing a particular group of individuals who deviate from the norm, and how they are treated by society. Do you believe such treatment is just, or wrong? Why?

Essay Topic 3

List and describe the three dimensions discussed in the novel. Be sure to include as many details about each as possible.

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