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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 say about preventing future shock?

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

3. In what field have some countries tried to move away from giving people free choices?

4. What is NOT a symptom of future shock?

5. What is the individual's relationship with the subgroup, in Toffler's account?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How can future shock be prevented?

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

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

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

7. How does change affect people's health?

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

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

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

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 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

When is the starting date for super-industrial culture? What event marks its inception? Where did it start and under what conditions? Where is it still emerging? Where are people fighting its emergence? What methods have they used to fight it?

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