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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who should test new technologies before they can be accepted into society?
(a) Private corporations.
(b) The government.
(c) Panels of citizens.
(d) Social leaders.

9. In what field have some countries tried to move away from giving people free choices?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Education.
(d) Military.

10. What is the individual's relationship with the subgroup, in Toffler's account?
(a) He subordinates his ideas to the group's.
(b) He pledges to bring new converts to the subgroup.
(c) He identifies with certain characteristics and adapts them to his personality.
(d) He serves as the group's representative wherever he goes.

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

12. 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 draws the ages together.
(c) It emphasizes the differences.
(d) It makes the ages more interdependent.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ability is compromised by too much change?

2. What is the right amount of change called?

3. What development will affect how we experience choice in our democracy?

4. What is Toffler's premise in Future Shock?

5. What does Toffler call the decision to change lifestyle?

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