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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 the result of too much change?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Anorexia.
(c) Manic depression.
(d) Lethargy and apathy.

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

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

4. What does Toffler say helps consolidate each identity?
(a) Assemblies.
(b) Heroes.
(c) Rituals.
(d) Unique currency.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can people develop to mitigate future shock?

2. What must men do as they face the coming changes, in Toffler's account?

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

4. What does change affect in a person's psychology?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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