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

2. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?
(a) Because the individual can never internalize society completely.
(b) Because the collectve consciousness will always be struggling to process the earliest tribal memories.
(c) Because the changes take place beyond the individual's sphere.
(d) Because man will always be at war with himself.

3. What is the other effect of increasing rate of change on different age groups?
(a) It increases diversity.
(b) It increases homogeneity.
(c) It segments the population.
(d) It diminishes cultural or regional differences.

4. How long does Toffler say it now takes for public value systems to change?
(a) Every few generations.
(b) Every few hundred years.
(c) Every few years.
(d) Within a lifetime.

5. What does future shock result from?
(a) Instability.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Despair.
(d) Over-stimulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler propose as a method for dealing with future shock?

2. What does a person get from how they choose their identity?

3. How does Toffler characterize society's relation with conduct, manners, and language?

4. How do people experience their moral values, in Toffler's future?

5. What does Toffler say is distorted in over-stimulated people?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who should investigate the effects of new technologies on society?

4. How will morals change in a super-industrial culture?

5. What will planners need to have in order to make an education system that prepares people for the future?

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

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

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

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

10. What does a subcult give a person?

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