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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What development will affect how we experience choice in our democracy?
(a) Standardization.
(b) Mechanization.
(c) Industrialization.
(d) Urbanization.
2. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study?
(a) A correlation between rate of change and suicide.
(b) A correlation between rate of change and individual health.
(c) A correlation between technology and depression.
(d) A correlation between success and loneliness.
3. How has super-industrial culture changed the financial system?
(a) By encouraging large amounts of debt.
(b) By encouraging people to invest.
(c) By making new investment vehicles.
(d) By separating the worker classes from the management class.
4. What should people be wary of in new technologies?
(a) Developments that create inequality.
(b) Developments that make old technologies obsolete.
(c) Developments that foster totalitarianism.
(d) Developments that contribute to acceleration.
5. What is it that affects a person who is undergoing change?
(a) Depression.
(b) Disorientation.
(c) Stress.
(d) Confusion.
6. How does Toffler characterize the society of his times?
(a) As full of appealing promises but ultimately self-destructive.
(b) As making progress toward widespread happiness.
(c) As crumbling.
(d) As out of control.
7. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study of the Navy?
(a) A correlation between change and illness.
(b) A correlation between change and depression.
(c) A correlation between change and feelings of powerlessness.
(d) A correlation between loneliness and aggression.
8. What is technology based on in the West, in Toffler's account?
(a) Profit.
(b) Cost-benefit calculation.
(c) The common good.
(d) Efficiency.
9. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?
(a) They lull them into unawareness.
(b) They suppress expressivity.
(c) They put them at ease.
(d) They raise the person's latent frustrations.
10. What does Toffler propose in order to institute his plan to protect against future shock?
(a) A public agency to review new technology.
(b) A party of revolutionaries to overthrow technological workers.
(c) A government based on wisdom and ancient principles.
(d) A political party for restricting technological research.
11. What does change require from a person's physiology?
(a) Expenditure of energy.
(b) Meditation techniques.
(c) Time for healing.
(d) Numbing techniques.
12. What has social change created, in Toffler's account?
(a) Revolutionary consciousness.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Overchoice.
(d) Unfreedom.
13. How does Toffler describe a person's choices in the future?
(a) Limited.
(b) Eliminated.
(c) Abundant.
(d) Compelled.
14. What is a stability zone?
(a) A group of familiar people.
(b) A pattern of familiar habits.
(c) A family home to return to.
(d) An adaptive religion.
15. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?
(a) Members.
(b) Power.
(c) Advertising dollars.
(d) Funding.
Short Answer Questions
1. What effect does an increasing rate of change have on the differences between age groups?
2. What will be the benefit of a set of descriptive indices?
3. What part of change can be manipulated to prevent or mitigate future shock?
4. What would be the outcome of government agencies' involvement in change management?
5. What ability is compromised by too much change?
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