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

2. Which of the following features are included in the systems of work and leadership outlined by Frazier in his description of Walden Two?

3. After Burris selects what he wants to do from the bulletin board, what do Mary and Steve decide to do instead?

4. What evidence does Frazier cite to support his argument about the impact of leisure on Walden Two?

5. How does Burris respond to the women of Walden Two when he first sees them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What advertising practices does Walden Two observe?

3. How does the author humanize Frazier in the description of the birthday party?

4. According to Frazier, what are the benefits of the system for organizing work?

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

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

7. When the visitors observe some children going off on a picnic and raise questions about jealousy, what explanations do they receive?

8. Summarize the main features of government and administration at Walden Two.

9. As the novel begins, how does Rogers explain to Burris the need that he and Steve are experiencing?

10. What does the conversation about jealousy give Frazier the opportunity to do, and how do Barbara and Castle respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of including Walden Two in a current high school literature syllabus?

Essay Topic 2

Today's audiences have been fed a steady diet of science fiction through cinema, television, and theater. Discuss the pros and cons of the observation that this diet has reduced the impact of "Walden Two" as an example of this genre.

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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