Future Shock Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Future Shock Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. With whom do modern people have to identify?

2. What is the danger in society's rate of change, in Toffler's opinion?

3. How has the grouping of adults changed in recent times, according to Toffler?

4. What does Toffler propose in order to institute his plan to protect against future shock?

5. What does Toffler predict with regard to choice in future culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Toffler say super-industrialism has affected education?

2. How will education have to change to meet the future?

3. What is the danger of change in a super-industrial culture?

4. What does an individual need to do to prepare for the future and avoid future shock?

5. Who does Toffler use as examples of victims of over-stimulation and future shock?

6. How can future shock be prevented?

7. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

8. How will morals change in a super-industrial culture?

9. What does Toffler say people need to do in order to deal with the coming future?

10. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When is the starting date for super-industrial culture? What event marks its inception? Where did it start and under what conditions? Where is it still emerging? Where are people fighting its emergence? What methods have they used to fight it?

Essay Topic 2

How many of Toffler's predictions have been borne out in the forty years since he wrote Future Shock? Where was he accurate? Where was he inaccurate? What other factors could have created the same phenomena he describes?

Essay Topic 3

What do the terms Toffler coins tell us about the kind of book Future Shock is? Is it scientific? Psychological? Literary? Critical? What kinds of fields does Toffler echo in his neologisms?

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