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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. How do people experience their moral values, in Toffler's future?
(a) As mystical laws.
(b) As temporary values.
(c) As directives.
(d) As legal obligations.

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

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

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

5. What does Toffler call modern people who live in tropical climates?
(a) Schizophrenics.
(b) Victims of future shock.
(c) Dropouts.
(d) The avant-garde.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What tools will be necessary to determine whether changes should be allowed?

3. How does Toffler describe a person's choices in the future?

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

5. What part of change can be manipulated to prevent or mitigate future shock?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Toffler say the future will bring for individuals?

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

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

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

5. How would Toffler design curricula for the future education system?

6. What does an individual need to do to prepare for the future and avoid future shock?

7. How does Toffler say super-industrialism has affected education?

8. How will a person's choice of products be affected by super-industrialism?

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

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

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