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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the visitors learn at dinner about how the cooks at Walden Two ensure that food is not wasted?
(a) They cook meals from all around the world and make every effort to see that everything is eaten.
(b) They do not cook until a specific number of persons indicate what they want to eat.
(c) Leftovers are eaten on the folowing day.
(d) Members who leave too much food on their plates are fined for waste.

3. As the visitors get ready for their work assignment together, and Burris and Mary share breakfast, what develops between these two characters?
(a) Burris seems too intellectual for Mary, but he seems attracted to her.
(b) Mary is attracted to Burris, but she is too simple for him.
(c) They dislike each other.
(d) They do not speak much to each other.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are new leaders and managers chosen at Walden Two?

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. Why have Rogers and Jamnik come to visit Burris at the beginning of the novel?

4. How does the group of visitors manage the first work assignment of window-cleaning?

5. How does Frazier seek to integrate the visitors with the work system at Walden Two?

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