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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the individual's relationship with the subgroup, in Toffler's account?
(a) He serves as the group's representative wherever he goes.
(b) He subordinates his ideas to the group's.
(c) He identifies with certain characteristics and adapts them to his personality.
(d) He pledges to bring new converts to the subgroup.

2. What does a person get from how they choose their identity?
(a) A career.
(b) A job.
(c) A lifestyle.
(d) A religion.

3. Who does Toffler describe as examples of over-stimulation?
(a) Workers in factories.
(b) Church-goers.
(c) Writers.
(d) Soldiers in battle.

4. What difficulty does Toffler foresee with regulating change by policies?
(a) Even regulatory bureaucracies are often inefficient in adapting to change.
(b) Many policies have undesirable effects.
(c) Many policies fail to account for important factors.
(d) It is hard to find independent experts without vested interests, for governing.

5. How does Toffler say can we prevent future shock?
(a) By legislating the pace of change.
(b) By Ludditism.
(c) By limiting patents.
(d) By controlling the accelerative thrust.

6. What do people need to develop for the coming future, in Toffler's opinion?
(a) Religion for teaching people how to act.
(b) Technology for protecting the environment from change.
(c) Mechanisms for coping with change.
(d) Laws for resisting accelerative change.

7. In what field have some countries tried to move away from giving people free choices?
(a) Military.
(b) Education.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Transportation.

8. What power does society have, to resist advancements?
(a) To speak out against the changes.
(b) To block new technologies.
(c) To bear arms against oppressors.
(d) To revolt against the government.

9. What does change affect in a person's psychology?
(a) Their ability to solve problems.
(b) Their decision-making process.
(c) Their ability to acquire language.
(d) Their ability to orient themselves in time and space.

10. What does Toffler say continual change causes?
(a) The aggression reaction.
(b) The adaptive reaction.
(c) The suppressive reaction.
(d) The orientation response.

11. What is a stability zone?
(a) A family home to return to.
(b) A pattern of familiar habits.
(c) An adaptive religion.
(d) A group of familiar people.

12. What does Toffler say is just as harmful as planning for the future?
(a) Planning without studying history.
(b) Not planning for the future.
(c) Planning for fictional futures.
(d) Basing plans on previous historical outcomes.

13. What does Toffler say groups have to do?
(a) Remain the same.
(b) Change.
(c) Compete.
(d) Restrain the adaptive urge.

14. What organizations does Toffler cite as an example of an organization that mitigates future shock?
(a) Restaurants.
(b) Hospitals.
(c) Schools.
(d) Halfway houses.

15. What does the accelerative thrust of society require, in Toffler's account?
(a) Nutritional supplements.
(b) Strong family.
(c) More healing time.
(d) Faster decision-making.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the other effect of increasing rate of change on different age groups?

2. What does change require from a person's physiology?

3. What does Toffler call modern people who live in tropical climates?

4. What evidence does Toffler use for his characterization of his society?

5. What effect does Toffler say technology will have on education in the future?

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