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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. At the group's Sunday breakfast, how does Barbara's behavior affect Frazier?
(a) She flirts with him, but he responds awkwardly.
(b) She flirts with him and he reciprocates.
(c) She accosts him about his beliefs and he withdraws because she is a woman.
(d) She ignores him and he becomes fidgety.

2. What do the visitors who want to join Walden Two have to pass?
(a) Intelligence and aptitude tests.
(b) Career tests and physicals.
(c) A physical.
(d) Physicals and intelligence tests.

3. According to Frazier's explanation of behavior theory, what two contradictory forces occur simultaneously when it is applied?
(a) Freedom and control.
(b) Freedom and dictatorship.
(c) Freedom and tyranny.
(d) Free will and obedience.

4. While observing this group, what does Frazier reveal to the observers about Walden Two?
(a) It has reached its final goal of six communities.
(b) It has been perpetuating itself by forming similar communities at Walden Three, Four and Five.
(c) It is cutting back on the formation of new communities.
(d) It has over ten branches.

5. According to Frazier, how does Walden Two overcome the weaknesses of democracy?
(a) By leaving government to experts and by emphasizing cooperation and planning.
(b) By relying on the ombudsman and disallowing dissent.
(c) By having everyone vote in the same way after canvassing their opinions.
(d) By relying on the Political Manager and gathering the ideas of members.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Code sustained at Walden Two?

2. What does Burris learn from the housewife that he meets on the way to his room, regarding whether she is happy?

3. Who are the first visitors to decide on joining Walden Two?

4. Following the discussion of marriage and child-bearing, what view of the modern world does Frazier use to justify some of the family-oriented practices at Walden Two?

5. Which one of the visitors fails to understand why anyone would want to live at Walden Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Walden Two relate to government in the wider society, and what has the method accomplished?

2. While on the roof, how does Frazier counter Castle's claim that life at Walden Two offers no challenge and lacks moral law?

3. Why is Frazier's response to Castle's question about government and politics ironic?

4. When Frazier, Burris, and Castle take a walk outside and see a group arriving, what information is given about the growth of the community?

5. When Castle and Frazier agree that force or threat of force can control behavior, what additions does Frazier make to the discussion?

6. After they have heard about education and child-rearing, what views about family life does Frazier share with the visitors?

7. When Burris and Frazier are alone after rain destroys the group's plan of an afternoon walk, of what does Burris accuse Frazier, and why?

8. What conflicting views about life at Walden Two surface for Rogers and Barbara after they have been exposed to some of the practices like education and family life?

9. What is Frazier's response when Castle questions his belief in democracy?

10. When Burris tries to ask Frazier about communal societies that have failed in the past, how does Frazier respond?

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