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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the right amount of change called?
(a) The adaptive range.
(b) Balanced stumulation.
(c) Behavioral health.
(d) The statistical norm.

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

3. Who should test new technologies before they can be accepted into society?
(a) Panels of citizens.
(b) Private corporations.
(c) The government.
(d) Social leaders.

4. What is the result of too much change?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Manic depression.
(c) Lethargy and apathy.
(d) Anorexia.

5. What is it that affects a person who is undergoing change?
(a) Depression.
(b) Stress.
(c) Disorientation.
(d) Confusion.

6. How long does Toffler say it now takes for public value systems to change?
(a) Every few hundred years.
(b) Within a lifetime.
(c) Every few years.
(d) Every few generations.

7. What do "subcults" give the people who belong to them, in Toffler's account?
(a) An escape from their jobs.
(b) A way to orient themselves.
(c) An individual identity.
(d) A way to spend their money.

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

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

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 political party for restricting technological research.
(d) A government based on wisdom and ancient principles.

11. What would one benefit of government involvement in change management be?
(a) Eliminating future problems.
(b) Measuring the long-term effects of change.
(c) Harnessing more profit from each change.
(d) Distributing the wealth more equitably.

12. With whom do modern people have to identify?
(a) Religious groups.
(b) Families.
(c) Subgroups.
(d) Employers.

13. What do subgroups provide for people?
(a) An antidote for loneliness.
(b) An income and social belonging.
(c) A haven from the market.
(d) A way to express political opinions.

14. How does Toffler characterize society's relation with conduct, manners, and language?
(a) As an ad-hocracy.
(b) As a cracked consensus.
(c) As a new fascism.
(d) As a planned obsolescence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?

2. What organizations does Toffler cite as an example of an organization that mitigates future shock?

3. How do people experience their moral values, in Toffler's future?

4. Why were alternative schools formed, in Toffler's account?

5. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study of the Navy?

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