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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 power does society have, to resist advancements?

2. What happens when a group's experience is above the adaptive range?

3. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?

4. What is NOT a symptom of future shock?

5. What do "subcults" give the people who belong to them, in Toffler's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a subcult give a person?

2. What is the danger of change in a super-industrial culture?

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

4. How will education have to change to meet the future?

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

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

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

8. What purpose do subcults serve?

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

10. What does an individual need to do to prepare for the future and avoid future shock?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is "the tradition" Toffler refers to? Pre-industrial Europe? Medieval Europe? Pre-contact North America? Greece and Rome? When were things simpler, and when does Toffler say they changed? What brought about the change?

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

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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