Meditation would be the correct answer ;)
The shape would be a trapezoid, because trapezoids always have two sets of equivalent angles, while others don't. Like squares and rectangles have all 90 degree angles.
Answer: "It's a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me."
It is the quote from "Flowers for Algernon" that would best provide evidence for the thesis -- that people often treat those who are different badly.
It was Alexander I.
He was a Russian Tsar, he fought Napleon, I believe.