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Chapters 1-5
Chapters 6-10
Chapters 11-15
Chapters 16-20
Chapters 21-22 and 2 Open Ended Essay Questions
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Q. What lives in Flatland and how can you explain what it looks like?
A. Shapes inhabit flatland and you can compare it to a vast sheet of paper.
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Q. Who mostly uses the recognition of sight?
A. The upper class use sight to distinguish who is who.
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Q. Priests are not only religious people, but administrators of what other things?
A. Some examples are business, art and science.
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Q. Does the sphere convince the square of a place called Spaceland?
A. The square does not believe in it.
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Q. Who does square talk to when he wants to convince someone of Flatland.
A. His grandson, because he is a kid and less educated then the adults, and might be able to be convinced.
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Q. What is the most common house in Flatland and why?
A. The pentagon house is the most popular because the points are not that sharp as the more sides increase.
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Q. What is an irregular figure in Flatland?
A. A shape with no equal sides, no equal angle, and convex.
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Q. What do woman must have when they marry?
A. They have to have a pedigree.
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Q. What does the sphere do to convince the square he is from Spaceland?
A. He hits his stomach, which has never been touched before.
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Q. Why does the square get thrown in jail at the end of the book?
A. He was trying to convince people of a 3 dimensional place called Spaceland. People thought he was insane and they threw him in jail because of it.
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Q. What is the Law of Nature in Flatland? What happens to the woman?
A. It states that the male child will have one more side then the farther. The woman will always be straight lines.
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Q. What was color used for in the ancient Flatland?
A. They used it to color themselves so people can recognize them in another way.
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Q. What is something similar with Lineland and Flatland?
A. The woman both are 1 dimension lower.
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Q. What does the sphere do to make him go into Spaceland and what does the square see?
A. He lifts him up from Flatland and he lifts him high so he can see his house vertically.
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What does square finally realize when he is in jail, writing about his journey.
That the worlds Pointland,Lineland and Spaceland are unreachable and will never see them again.
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Q. Why do woman have to do the peace cry when walking in a public place?
A. The women are so sharp and hard to see, that they need to make a noise so others will know that they are there.
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Q. What is the Universal Color Bill?
A. A bill that made the front half of woman and priests be painted red, and the other half be painted blue, which cause major confusion.
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Q. When the square is explaining Flatland to the king of Lineland, does the king believe of such a place?
A. The king does not believe in the square. He thinks he is a crazy person.
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Q. What is the explanation sphere gives to square for what the difference is between a circle and a square.
A. A sphere is a bunch of circles stacked up on each other.
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If then Universal Color Bill was passed, what would be the differences in the community?
Layout- 1st Paragraph- Intro on how flatland works and how it is a 2 dimensional place. 2nd Paragraph- Discuss how people would need less schooling due to how you can just tell by the color. 3rd Paragraph- Discuss how people would not like how woman would seem equal to the community. 4th Paragraph- Discuss how wars will break out due to making woman seem like they have more rights. 5th Paragraph- Conclude that people would need to get used to woman having more rights and wars would happen because of it. Acceptable Points- • Would be less schooling for people because sight recognition would be useless. • Woman would seem equal to the rest of the community. • Many wars will occur due to how woman would have more rights due to looking the same as other low class shapes.
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Q. What are a few ways they can distinguish one another other then sight?
A. They use hearing, and in the lower classes, feeling each other.
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Q. How long did fights go on after the passing of the Universal Color Bill and what happened after?
A. 3 years of fights, and then the color bill was outlawed.
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Q. What shape visits the square from Spaceland?
A. A sphere visits the square from his world called Spaceland.
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Q. What is the name of the land with no dimensions?
A. Pointland.
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Essay Question-Part 2 During Part 2 of Flatland, what happen in Squares life that made him have a different view of his world. Include his journey to Lineland, Spaceland and then back to Flatland
Layout- 1st Paragraph- Introduction on flatland and explain how it works. 2nd Paragraph- Discuss Squares journey in Flatland when he was dreaming and what happened to him. 3rd Paragraph- Discuss how he encounters Sphere and what happened while talking to Sphere. 4th Paragraph- Discuss what happened to Square when he tried to convince others and what was the outcome of this. 5th Paragraph- Conclude how him learning about all these world make him think differently about his world and how he is limited to a 2 dimensional world. Acceptable Points- • His journey to Lineland and what he discovers. • His journey from flatland to Spaceland and what happens when he encounters the Sphere. • His quest to convince people of Spaceland and what the outcome was.