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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler say about conduct, manners and language?
(a) They are standardized by mass media.
(b) They are jeopardized by mass media.
(c) They are unique to each individual.
(d) There is no broad agreement about them.

2. What organizations does Toffler cite as an example of an organization that mitigates future shock?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Schools.
(c) Halfway houses.
(d) Restaurants.

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

4. 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 government based on wisdom and ancient principles.
(c) A party of revolutionaries to overthrow technological workers.
(d) A political party for restricting technological research.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. What does Toffler say is the consequence of too much change?
(a) Social irrationality.
(b) Ennui.
(c) Misanthropy.
(d) Weltschmerz.

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

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

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

14. What difficulty does Toffler foresee with regulating change by policies?
(a) Many policies fail to account for important factors.
(b) Even regulatory bureaucracies are often inefficient in adapting to change.
(c) It is hard to find independent experts without vested interests, for governing.
(d) Many policies have undesirable effects.

15. 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 rate of change and suicide.
(d) A correlation between technology and depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the right amount of change called?

2. How has super-industrial culture changed the financial system?

3. With whom do modern people have to identify?

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

5. What does Toffler say continual change causes?

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