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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 propose as a method for dealing with future shock?

2. How long does Toffler say it now takes for public value systems to change?

3. What difficulty does Toffler foresee with regulating change by policies?

4. How often does the orientation response occur?

5. What does Toffler say about conduct, manners and language?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does change affect people's health?

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

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

4. How will morals change in a super-industrial culture?

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

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. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

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

10. What does Toffler say the future will bring for individuals?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How many of Toffler's predictions have been borne out in the forty years since he wrote Future Shock? Where was he accurate? Where was he inaccurate? What other factors could have created the same phenomena he describes?

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