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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 call the decision to change lifestyle?

2. What is NOT a symptom of future shock?

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

4. What does future shock result from?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does change affect people's health?

2. What will the consequence be if new technologies are not controlled?

3. What will planners need to have in order to make an education system that prepares people for the future?

4. How is super-industrialism affecting the segmentation of the population?

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

6. How will a person's choice of products be affected by super-industrialism?

7. What purpose do subcults serve?

8. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

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

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

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

What objections could be made to Toffler's suggestions for methods of remedying or preventing or mitigating the accelerative thrust? What would likely occur if his prescriptions were followed? What would the benefits be? What adverse effects might there be?

Essay Topic 3

What is Toffler's relationship with Marxist thought and the inequality that drives capitalist society? Is he blind to economic culture? How does he account for the differences between social classes?

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