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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What evidence does Frazier cite to support his argument about the impact of leisure on Walden Two?
(a) A successful school of performing arts.
(b) A burgeoning music community with composers and performers.
(c) A strong spiritual culture.
(d) A lively group of young artists.

2. Who else is invited to join the three men as they plan their visit to Walden Two?
(a) Barbara and Mackie.
(b) Castle and Mackling.
(c) Barbara Macklin, Mary Grove, and Augustine Castle.
(d) Augusta and Barbara.

3. What is the attitude of Walden Two towards the importance of mother love in the lives of babies?
(a) They get it by being isolated from everyone except their mothers.
(b) They get it from daily visits with their mothers.
(c) It is not a necessity.
(d) They get it from the entire community.

4. Which of the following terms best sums up the approach to decision-making, as described by Frazier to the visitors?
(a) It is a democratic system in which everyone participates equally.
(b) It is a system of decision-making by committees.
(c) It is a system in which the leader makes all the important decisions.
(d) It is a system of cooperation and consensus at the leadership level.

5. What is the highest level of community leadership at Walden Two?
(a) The Board of Planners.
(b) The Community Action Board.
(c) The Chief of the Community, who is Frazier.
(d) The Management Board.

6. As the group comes across couples with babies, what views are expressed concerning the best age for marriage and child-bearing?
(a) Frazier points out the advantages at Walden Two of early marriage and parenthood, but the visitors express different views.
(b) They all agree that there are disadvantages to adolescent motherhood.
(c) They all agree that early child-bearing frees women to join the work force.
(d) They all believe that delaying marriage and pregnancy is best for individuals and society.

7. On their way to their first activity on the morning after they participate in entertainment, what do the visitors observe?
(a) They pass children learning geometry with strings and pegs.
(b) They pass children involved in organized sports.
(c) They pass children gardening.
(d) They pass children painting a mural.

8. How does the rearing of Walden Two children up to three-years-old compare with that of babies?
(a) Their playing and sleeping arrangements are the same.
(b) They all receive inoculations and eat only organic food.
(c) Their health care is the same.
(d) Their sleeping arrangements are the same.

9. After the visitors complete their first session of window-cleaning, how does Frazier clarify the view that Walden Two is about "getting back to a simpler time"?
(a) The objective is to increase physical and spiritual activity.
(b) He explains that the objective is to reduce hard labor, use technology, and create leisure.
(c) The objective is to increase physical work and improve health.
(d) The objective is to reduce work and improve relationships.

10. What is the significance of the name of the passageway where the visitors first have tea?
(a) It is a biblical reference that suggests a way to heaven.
(b) It is a biblical reference that suggests salvation.
(c) It is a biblical reference that suggests perfection.
(d) It is a biblical reference that suggests the liberation of the Israelites.

11. Which of the following terms best describes some of the weaknesses that Frazier attributes to the traditional educational system?
(a) Overly bureaucratic and often pointless.
(b) Bureaucratic and boring.
(c) Bureaucratic and inefficient.
(d) Bureaucratic and ineffective.

12. According to Frazier's explanation, what is one of the most important expected outcomes of Walden Two's approach to organizing work?
(a) Walden Two will be productive and self-sufficient.
(b) Walden Two will prosper economically.
(c) This will usher in a "Golden Age" of creativity.
(d) Members will become more productive.

13. What is the impact on Burris when he participates in his chosen form of entertainment?
(a) He is not convinced that Walden Two has the potential for a Golden Age.
(b) He agrees with Frazier's philosophy.
(c) He is overcome with the idea of a Golden Age.
(d) He believes Fraizer's ideas are unrealistic.

14. Who is in charge of the nursery visited by the group?
(a) Mrs. Meyerson.
(b) Mrs. Frazier.
(c) Mrs. Rogers.
(d) Mrs. Nash.

15. Why are all members of Walden Two required to do physical labor?
(a) To prevent obesity and health problems.
(b) To contribute to health and well-being while keeping in touch with workers.
(c) To maintain good relations with workers.
(d) To keep them fit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the profession of Burris?

2. Apart from artwork in the gallery, what other type of artistic activity is referred to in the first part of the visitors' tour of Walden Two?

3. What is the name of the passageway where the visitors have their tea on their first day at Walden Two?

4. During their first discussion, what does Burris decide to do after the men have spoken about Frazier?

5. As the visitors go to their first dinner, where do they observe many of Walden Two's members gathering?

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