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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 does Toffler propose as a standard for relationships?

2. What term does Toffler use to describe the future society?

3. What will not be an option, in Toffler's view of the future?

4. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?

5. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does transience affect modern society?

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

3. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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

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

6. What is the effect of the economics of transience?

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

8. What is the modular man?

9. How does Toffler describe deeper relationships?

10. What will change mean for the people of the future, in Toffler's account?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What efforts have people made to heal or resist future shock in the years since Toffler wrote the book? How has super-industrial culture reacted to attempts to live beyond it? How, in turn, do people live with their culture's attempt to co-opt their healing strategies for profit or broader use?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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