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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 predict with regard to choice in future culture?

2. What does Toffler say helps consolidate each identity?

3. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study of the Navy?

4. What is technology based on in the West, in Toffler's account?

5. What is it that affects a person who is undergoing change?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Toffler describe the successful adaptation to change?

4. How does change affect people's health?

5. How does Toffler say super-industrialism has affected education?

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

7. What is the role of the lifestyle in super-industrial culture?

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

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

10. How does Toffler say victims of future shock deal with their situation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does future shock apply differently to different populations? Do women have a different experience of future shock than men? Do blacks have a different experience than whites or Hispanics or Asians?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Is future shock a generalized condition of super-industrial culture, or is it a condition that only applies to the people who are suffering under super-industrial conditions? How does Toffler apply the term? How would you apply it?

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