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

3. What happens when a group's experience is above the adaptive range?
(a) Reactionary violence.
(b) Problems of distortion.
(c) Shift toward messianism.
(d) Decline in membership.

4. Why were alternative schools formed, in Toffler's account?
(a) To provide for religious education.
(b) To make schools for all girls or all boys.
(c) To combat the standardization of education.
(d) To provide people with cheaper education options.

5. What would be the outcome of government agencies' involvement in change management?
(a) Evaluative criteria for different effects on society.
(b) Tools for dealing with change.
(c) Models that predict human behavior in the future.
(d) Snapshots of a society's values.

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

7. What does Toffler call the decision to change lifestyle?
(a) A life-or-death decision.
(b) A super-decision.
(c) An important decision.
(d) The malady of transience.

8. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?
(a) They suppress expressivity.
(b) They put them at ease.
(c) They lull them into unawareness.
(d) They raise the person's latent frustrations.

9. What development will affect how we experience choice in our democracy?
(a) Mechanization.
(b) Industrialization.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Standardization.

10. What fields will spur the movement that affects choice in the future?
(a) Technology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Industry.
(d) Politics.

11. What will be the benefit of a set of descriptive indices?
(a) They could quantify the effect of change.
(b) They could quantify the profitability of new technology.
(c) They could create a standard for technological change.
(d) They could help calibrate one culture with another.

12. What does Toffler say about preventing future shock?
(a) It is requires drastic changes.
(b) It is impossible.
(c) It is possible but not easy.
(d) It is easy to do.

13. How does Toffler say the future should be greeted?
(a) With despair.
(b) With unconditional acceptance.
(c) With equipoise.
(d) With wariness.

14. How often does the orientation response occur?
(a) Hundreds of times a day.
(b) A few times a week.
(c) A few times a day.
(d) A few times a month.

15. What must men do as they face the coming changes, in Toffler's account?
(a) Anticipate and prepare for them.
(b) Crush the organizations out of which change comes most frequently.
(c) Build coalitions to plan for negative consequences.
(d) Prevent them.