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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tools will be necessary to determine whether changes should be allowed?
(a) Communication protocols.
(b) Cost benefit analysis tools.
(c) Social networking tools.
(d) Structural modeling tools.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?

2. What difficulty does Toffler foresee with regulating change by policies?

3. What would be the outcome of government agencies' involvement in change management?

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

5. What does Toffler predict with regard to choice in future culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Toffler say the orientation of the schools will have to change?

2. What is the danger of change in a super-industrial culture?

3. What is the role of the lifestyle in super-industrial culture?

4. How is super-industrialism affecting the segmentation of the population?

5. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

6. Why can't the system police itself with regard to new technologies?

7. What physical systems does Toffler associate with illness from change?

8. Who does Toffler use as examples of victims of over-stimulation and future shock?

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

10. How will education have to change to meet the future?

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