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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does Toffler say technology will have on education in the future?
(a) Curricula will be standardized.
(b) Standardized tests will rule the classrooms.
(c) There will be more alternative schools.
(d) Computerized testing will centralize education.

2. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study?
(a) A correlation between success and loneliness.
(b) A correlation between rate of change and individual health.
(c) A correlation between technology and depression.
(d) A correlation between rate of change and suicide.

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

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

5. Where else does Toffler see evidence of the psychology of over-stimulation?
(a) Orphans.
(b) Commuters.
(c) New parents.
(d) Disaster survivors.

6. What measure would Toffler like to be able to use on society?
(a) A measure of a people's resiliency.
(b) A measure of the livability of a country.
(c) A measure of a people's happiness.
(d) A measure of a people's real misery.

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

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

9. What is the other effect of increasing rate of change on different age groups?
(a) It segments the population.
(b) It increases homogeneity.
(c) It increases diversity.
(d) It diminishes cultural or regional differences.

10. How has super-industrial culture changed the financial system?
(a) By making new investment vehicles.
(b) By separating the worker classes from the management class.
(c) By encouraging large amounts of debt.
(d) By encouraging people to invest.

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

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

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

14. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?
(a) Members.
(b) Power.
(c) Funding.
(d) Advertising dollars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the method people use to cope with future shock?

2. What will be the benefit of a set of descriptive indices?

3. What is a stability zone?

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

5. What does Toffler say groups have to do?

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