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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the visitors learn at dinner about how the management of meals contributes to avoidance of crowds at Walden Two?
(a) Meals are served to be taken away.
(b) Meals are taken to individual living quarters.
(c) Meals are served throughout the day.
(d) Meals are served at different locations.

2. How does Walden Two meet its production needs when members work a relatively short work day?
(a) The lifestyle does not require more.
(b) The labor force includes adolescents and women.
(c) The size of the community permits this.
(d) Workers from the nearby farms give assistance.

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

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

5. Based on Frazier's description of the system, which of the following statements best describes a weakness in the way leaders are chosen at Walden Two?
(a) It has no mechanism for participation of workers.
(b) It assumes that the motives and skills of the decision-makers are at the apppropriate level.
(c) It places too much power in the hands of one person.
(d) It places too much power in the hands of a few persons.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Early in their tour of Walden Two, the visitors learn that children do not eat with adults in the main dining room until a certain age. What age is this?

3. What approach to psychology is reflected in this first activity that is observed by the visitors?

4. How does the kitchen staff manage the washing and clearing of dishes after dinner?

5. What is the significance of the name of the passageway where the visitors first have tea?

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