I was going through an old topology prelim, and encountered a question which I'm really not sure how I should work out. Here it is:
Suppose we let $X = \mathbb{R} \times \{3,4,…\} \subset \mathbb{R}^2$. Now let $L_{\theta} \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be the line through the origin with slope $\tan \theta$, i.e. the directed angle from the positive $x$-axis to $L_{\theta}$ is $\theta$. Further, we let $ Y= \bigcup_{i \geq 3} L_{\pi/i}.$ Also, we define $g: X \rightarrow Y$ by $g(x,i)= (x, x\tan(\pi/i))$. We have to show that $g$ is a continuous surjection, but not a quotient map. Any ideas how I should approach this?