Future Shock Test | Final Test - Easy

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Future Shock Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Toffler propose in order to institute his plan to protect against future shock?
(a) A political party for restricting technological research.
(b) A public agency to review new technology.
(c) A party of revolutionaries to overthrow technological workers.
(d) A government based on wisdom and ancient principles.

4. Why were alternative schools formed, in Toffler's account?
(a) To make schools for all girls or all boys.
(b) To provide for religious education.
(c) To combat the standardization of education.
(d) To provide people with cheaper education options.

5. 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.

6. What is Toffler's premise in Future Shock?
(a) That there is a limit to how much man can adapt to.
(b) That the future will bring a return of the sins of the early industrialists.
(c) That there will be a collapse after years of prosperity.
(d) That the future will witness a new stability after years of turmoil and change.

7. How does Toffler say can we prevent future shock?
(a) By controlling the accelerative thrust.
(b) By Ludditism.
(c) By limiting patents.
(d) By legislating the pace of change.

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

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

10. What does a person get from how they choose their identity?
(a) A career.
(b) A job.
(c) A lifestyle.
(d) A religion.

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

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

13. What does change require from a person's physiology?
(a) Meditation techniques.
(b) Expenditure of energy.
(c) Numbing techniques.
(d) Time for healing.

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

15. How does Toffler describe a person's choices in the future?
(a) Eliminated.
(b) Compelled.
(c) Limited.
(d) Abundant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What measure would Toffler like to be able to use on society?

3. Where else does Toffler see evidence of the psychology of over-stimulation?

4. What fields will spur the movement that affects choice in the future?

5. What does Toffler say about preventing future shock?

(see the answer keys)

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