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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the visitors learn about Walden Two's method of keeping babies healthy?
(a) To prevent illness, babies have limited exposure to the outside world in the first year.
(b) Babies are only fed breast milk in the first year.
(c) Babies are only fed organic food in the first year.
(d) Babies are inoculated against illness in their first year.

2. How are new leaders and managers chosen at Walden Two?
(a) The members of the highest leadership group choose their successors, and managers work up to their positions.
(b) Frazier appoints a selection board each year.
(c) The Community Action Board chooses new leaders and managers.
(d) Frazier selects the high-level leaders and they choose managers.

3. After dinner, as the visitors settle in the lounge, what does Frazier explain about how members of Walden Two contribute to the community?
(a) Members must work eight hours each day.
(b) Members are paid for work and must contribute a percentage of their earnings to the community.
(c) Each family is assigned to different chores and these are rotated.
(d) Through a system of labor credits, members must give fours hours of work each day .

4. How does Mrs. Meyerson contribute to the community's cultural activities?
(a) She leads a theater group.
(b) She leads a dance group.
(c) She performs in a musical chorus.
(d) She works with a group of painters.

5. What is the most advanced exercise for children to learn ethics?
(a) Half of the children wait for five minutes while the other half go on eating.
(b) Some children must skip one meal while others eat.
(c) Children must feed their peers without getting food for themselves.
(d) Half of the children wait half-an-hour, while the other half go on eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the name of Walden Two contain the word Two?

2. Which of the following terms best describes some of the weaknesses that Frazier attributes to the traditional educational system?

3. Why does Mrs. Meyerson leave the group during their first visit?

4. Where are babies kept in the early stages of life at Walden Two?

5. How do Walden Two's communication practices differ from the outside world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence is there at Walden Two regarding Frazier's idea of a flourishing artistic environment?

2. What advertising practices does Walden Two observe?

3. As the novel begins, how does Rogers explain to Burris the need that he and Steve are experiencing?

4. Why does the author expand the group that will visit Walden Two?

5. What aspects of Walden Two's practices do the visitors observe at dinner?

6. According to Frazier, what are the benefits of the system for organizing work?

7. When the visitors observe some children going off on a picnic and raise questions about jealousy, what explanations do they receive?

8. As the visit progresses to the next morning, what tensions emerge among the visitors themselves?

9. What is the result of the discussion about Frazier and the action that Burris takes?

10. How is work organized at Walden Two?

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