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

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

3. According to Frazier's explanation, how is the system managed to prevent members from favoring professional work over manual labor?
(a) Once there are enough members for each profession, others must choose different types of work.
(b) Frazier instructs members regarding how many professionals are needed.
(c) Members are trained for different professions and rotate through them in turn.
(d) Administrators determine how many people are needed in each profession, and the potential applicants decide among themselves who will be selected.

4. What further explanation does Frazier give about Walden Two's philosophy regarding emotional expression?
(a) They use punishment to control emotions.
(b) They ignore negative emotions until they go away.
(c) They use behavioral engineering to eliminate harmful emotions.
(d) They develop spiritual awareness to offset negative emotions.

5. What part does soup play in one of the lessons that the children must learn in order to internalize ethics?
(a) Children must stand before the soup for five minutes before drinking it.
(b) Children watch their peers drinking soup and go without.
(c) Children have to watch adults drink soup and go without.
(d) Children stand before the soup for half an hour before drinking it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the highest level of community leadership at Walden Two?

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

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

4. In the first discussion between Rogers, Burris, and Jamnik, why is Frazier's name introduced?

5. On their way to their first activity on the morning after they participate in entertainment, what do the visitors observe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the philosophy of Walden Two about leisure?

3. What advertising practices does Walden Two observe?

4. Why is Frazier responsive to requests for visits from the "failed" outside world to his new society?

5. How is work organized at Walden Two?

6. Why have Steve and Rogers come to visit Burris?

7. What are the major features of the Walden Two approach to education?

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

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

10. Are there any disadvantages to eliminating harmful emotions?

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