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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What can people develop to mitigate future shock?
(a) Future shock dampeners.
(b) Future shock intuition.
(c) Future shock absorbers.
(d) Future shock buffers.

3. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?
(a) Because the individual can never internalize society completely.
(b) Because man will always be at war with himself.
(c) Because the changes take place beyond the individual's sphere.
(d) Because the collectve consciousness will always be struggling to process the earliest tribal memories.

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

5. What should people be wary of in new technologies?
(a) Developments that foster totalitarianism.
(b) Developments that create inequality.
(c) Developments that make old technologies obsolete.
(d) Developments that contribute to acceleration.

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

7. What does Toffler say is distorted in over-stimulated people?
(a) Their perception of reality.
(b) Their religiousness.
(c) Their creativity.
(d) Their sense of injustice.

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

9. Where does the process of preparing for the future begin, according to Toffler?
(a) With marriage.
(b) With acquiring an education.
(c) With examining one's own reactions.
(d) With adulthood.

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

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

12. What part of change can be manipulated to prevent or mitigate future shock?
(a) Market behaviors.
(b) People's behaviors.
(c) Technological advances.
(d) Legal statutes.

13. What is the behavioral consequence of the psychological effects of change?
(a) Drug use.
(b) Depression.
(c) Art.
(d) Crime.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How will new technologies help people, in Toffler's opinion?

2. What has social change created, in Toffler's account?

3. How has the grouping of adults changed in recent times, according to Toffler?

4. What is someone supposed to do once they choose their identity?

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

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