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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 fields will spur the movement that affects choice in the future?

2. What does Toffler say is the consequence of too much change?

3. What does change affect in a person's psychology?

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

5. What is the danger in society's rate of change, in Toffler's opinion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

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

3. What does a subcult give a person?

4. How would Toffler design curricula for the future education system?

5. Who should investigate the effects of new technologies on society?

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

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

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

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

10. How does change affect people's health?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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