Walden Two Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

B. F. Skinner
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 196 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Walden Two Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

B. F. Skinner
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do babies sleep on in Walden Two?
(a) Easily cleaned stretched plastic that provides comfort and eliminates cleaning.
(b) Cotton sheets.
(c) Wooden slats with sponges.
(d) Foam covered wood.

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

3. 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) Their sleeping arrangements are the same.
(c) Their health care is the same.
(d) They all receive inoculations and eat only organic food.

4. Why does Frazier point this out to the visitors?
(a) It demonstrates the productivity of the sheep.
(b) It demonstrates the benefits of early marriage.
(c) It illustrates the ability of the community to control specific behaviors that suit the community's needs.
(d) It demonstrates the ability to control young children.

5. How does Frazier respond to Castle's expression of horror at the practices with the children?
(a) He says he believes in the methods because they worked in his own childhood.
(b) He says the children are admired everywhere because of their behavior.
(c) He says the practices help the children control their behavior.
(d) He says these are controlled frustrations for good ends, unlike the ones children normally face.

Short Answer Questions

1. After their tour of the dairy, when Mrs. Meyerson joins the group, what tradition involving young couples do the visitors observe?

2. After dinner, as the visitors settle in the lounge, what does Frazier explain about how members of Walden Two contribute to the community?

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

4. As far as men and women are concerned, which of the following best sums up the way Frazier describes the allocation of work at Walden Two?

5. What do the visitors learn at dinner about how the management of meals contributes to avoidance of crowds at Walden Two?

(see the answer key)

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