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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?

2. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

3. What is the consequence of people relocating their homes more often in super-industrial culture?

4. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?

5. What is the economics of transience?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Toffler foresee in terms of exploring the ocean?

2. How has home-relocation affected the future society?

3. What are the three characteristics of bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

4. How will marriage be affected by the super-industrial culture?

5. What is the modular man?

6. What does Toffler foresee in the technology of fertility treatments?

7. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

8. What does Toffler say is the danger of high technology?

9. Describe the importance of the automobile in the super-industrial society.

10. How does transience affect modern society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Toffler a pessimist or a realist? Is it possible to call him an optimist, insofar as he diagnoses a problem and prescribes a course of action for treating it?

Essay Topic 2

How realistic are Toffler's suggestions for mitigating change in culture? How would you characterize his solutions? What do they say about his values? What options does he consider? What options does he not consider? What do they say about his analysis and his priorities? What are the benefits of Toffler's perspective? What are the limitations?

Essay Topic 3

What do the terms Toffler coins tell us about the kind of book Future Shock is? Is it scientific? Psychological? Literary? Critical? What kinds of fields does Toffler echo in his neologisms?

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