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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 is a stability zone?
(a) A family home to return to.
(b) An adaptive religion.
(c) A pattern of familiar habits.
(d) A group of familiar people.

2. How has the grouping of adults changed in recent times, according to Toffler?
(a) Marketers have identified overlapping interests between different age groups.
(b) There are more age groups.
(c) Demographics have focused on regions, not ages.
(d) Demographic analysis has taken a holistic approach of all ages as interrelated.

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

4. What does change require from a person's physiology?
(a) Time for healing.
(b) Meditation techniques.
(c) Expenditure of energy.
(d) Numbing techniques.

5. What does Toffler propose as a method for dealing with future shock?
(a) Subcults.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Situational groups.
(d) Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say is just as harmful as planning for the future?

2. What does Toffler say helps consolidate each identity?

3. How often does the orientation response occur?

4. How does Toffler say the future should be greeted?

5. How can social change be mitigated?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

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

6. How can future shock be prevented?

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

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

9. What does a subcult give a person?

10. How does future shock affect decision-making processes?

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