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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What subjects do the older children have to study in school?
2. What do babies sleep on in Walden Two?
3. How does the group of visitors manage the first work assignment of window-cleaning?
4. What part does soup play in one of the lessons that the children must learn in order to internalize ethics?
5. Why does the name of Walden Two contain the word Two?
Short Essay Questions
1. Are there any disadvantages to eliminating harmful emotions?
2. Why does the author expand the group that will visit Walden Two?
3. What does the conversation about jealousy give Frazier the opportunity to do, and how do Barbara and Castle respond?
4. After a tour of the dairy, what two traditions of Walden Two do the visitors observe?
5. When the visitors observe some children going off on a picnic and raise questions about jealousy, what explanations do they receive?
6. What advertising practices does Walden Two observe?
7. Why is Frazier responsive to requests for visits from the "failed" outside world to his new society?
8. What is the philosophy of Walden Two about leisure?
9. What kind of celebration does the group observe after tea on the first day of the visit?
10. After breakfast, what do the visitors observe that involves children and babies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the evolution of the adversarial relationship between Castle and Frazier, and comment on the role played by this relationship in the novel.
Essay Topic 2
The main purpose of Walden Two is the expression of the author's scientific theories about the science of behavior and how it should be used to manage societies. To what extent is this purpose accomplished?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the view that Walden Two is a vehicle through which Skinner destroys rather than vindicates the validity of alternative or Utopian communities.
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