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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 does Toffler say is distorted in over-stimulated people?
(a) Their religiousness.
(b) Their perception of reality.
(c) Their creativity.
(d) Their sense of injustice.

2. How does Toffler characterize society's relation with conduct, manners, and language?
(a) As a cracked consensus.
(b) As a new fascism.
(c) As a planned obsolescence.
(d) As an ad-hocracy.

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

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

5. What is someone supposed to do once they choose their identity?
(a) Conform to the subgroup.
(b) Make new friends.
(c) Convert others to that same identity.
(d) Invent new identities.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can social change be mitigated?

2. What is the result of too much change?

3. What does Toffler say is the consequence of too much change?

4. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?

5. What does Toffler say about conduct, manners and language?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Toffler say people need to do in order to deal with the coming future?

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

3. What will the place of enclaves be in future society?

4. How does Toffler say victims of future shock deal with their situation?

5. How does Toffler describe the successful adaptation to change?

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

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

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

9. What will the consequence be if new technologies are not controlled?

10. How can future shock be prevented?

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