View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say people get from mobility?

2. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?

3. What is leading the super-industrial revolution?

4. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?

5. What shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Toffler say commuting has affected the future society?

2. What did migration mean in Europe and in America?

3. How does Toffler describe the pace of modern life and its effect on society?

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

5. How will products and services be different in the new economy?

6. How does transience affect modern society?

7. What is the effect of change within organizations on future society?

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

9. What is the modular man?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Toffler's place in the literature of futurism? Who are his colleagues and contemporaries? Review the literature of futurism of Toffler's age, and describe his place among the other writers predicting the future of industrial culture.

Essay Topic 2

Choose an aspect of future shock, and propose one proactive step an organization, say your school, could take to mitigate its effects on the students, faculty, parents, and staff of the school.

Essay Topic 3

How does Future Shock fit in Toffler's lifelong works? What other books has he written, and what is Future Shock's relationship with his other books? What are the dominant themes of his writing and career?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 695 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample