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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can government agencies do to measure change?
(a) Impose conditions on each new technology.
(b) Develop models and perform simulations.
(c) Experiment on a small scale with each new technology.
(d) Impose restrictive tariffs to limit the effect of new technology.

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

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

4. How can social change be mitigated?
(a) By restricting industrial growth.
(b) By examining the consequences of technology.
(c) By keeping agriculture local.
(d) By keeping agriculture local.

5. What does Toffler propose as a method for dealing with future shock?
(a) Subcults.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Situational groups.
(d) Therapy.

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

7. What effect does an increasing rate of change have on the differences between age groups?
(a) It emphasizes the differences.
(b) It isolates the age groups from each other.
(c) It draws the ages together.
(d) It makes the ages more interdependent.

8. What does Toffler call modern people who live in tropical climates?
(a) Dropouts.
(b) Victims of future shock.
(c) Schizophrenics.
(d) The avant-garde.

9. What does Toffler say helps consolidate each identity?
(a) Assemblies.
(b) Rituals.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Unique currency.

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

11. What does Toffler say the future will do to people?
(a) Provide for unprecedented numbers of satisfied people.
(b) Change their genetic structure.
(c) Reinvent the laws of society.
(d) Push them toward the top of the adaptive range.

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

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

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

15. What industry does Toffler cite as an example of Americans' choices?
(a) The oil industry.
(b) The telecommunications industry.
(c) The auto industry.
(d) The travel industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?

2. What can people develop to mitigate future shock?

3. What ability is compromised by too much change?

4. How long does Toffler say it now takes for public value systems to change?

5. How does Toffler say the future should be greeted?

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