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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when a group's experience is above the adaptive range?
(a) Problems of distortion.
(b) Shift toward messianism.
(c) Decline in membership.
(d) Reactionary violence.

2. What do "subcults" give the people who belong to them, in Toffler's account?
(a) A way to orient themselves.
(b) A way to spend their money.
(c) An individual identity.
(d) An escape from their jobs.

3. What does Toffler say is the problem with technocrats?
(a) They are limited by their data.
(b) They are self-interested.
(c) They react slowly to new technologies.
(d) They are myopic.

4. What does Toffler propose in order to institute his plan to protect against future shock?
(a) A government based on wisdom and ancient principles.
(b) A political party for restricting technological research.
(c) A party of revolutionaries to overthrow technological workers.
(d) A public agency to review new technology.

5. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study?
(a) A correlation between rate of change and suicide.
(b) A correlation between rate of change and individual health.
(c) A correlation between success and loneliness.
(d) A correlation between technology and depression.

6. What do subgroups provide for people?
(a) An income and social belonging.
(b) A haven from the market.
(c) A way to express political opinions.
(d) An antidote for loneliness.

7. How has the grouping of adults changed in recent times, according to Toffler?
(a) Demographic analysis has taken a holistic approach of all ages as interrelated.
(b) Demographics have focused on regions, not ages.
(c) There are more age groups.
(d) Marketers have identified overlapping interests between different age groups.

8. What does future shock result from?
(a) Instability.
(b) Over-stimulation.
(c) Despair.
(d) Loneliness.

9. How does Toffler say the future should be greeted?
(a) With unconditional acceptance.
(b) With despair.
(c) With wariness.
(d) With equipoise.

10. What development will affect how we experience choice in our democracy?
(a) Industrialization.
(b) Standardization.
(c) Mechanization.
(d) Urbanization.

11. What does Toffler call the decision to change lifestyle?
(a) The malady of transience.
(b) A super-decision.
(c) A life-or-death decision.
(d) An important decision.

12. What does the accelerative thrust of society require, in Toffler's account?
(a) Faster decision-making.
(b) Strong family.
(c) Nutritional supplements.
(d) More healing time.

13. What would be the outcome of government agencies' involvement in change management?
(a) Models that predict human behavior in the future.
(b) Snapshots of a society's values.
(c) Evaluative criteria for different effects on society.
(d) Tools for dealing with change.

14. What do people need to develop for the coming future, in Toffler's opinion?
(a) Laws for resisting accelerative change.
(b) Technology for protecting the environment from change.
(c) Mechanisms for coping with change.
(d) Religion for teaching people how to act.

15. What industry does Toffler cite as an example of Americans' choices?
(a) The auto industry.
(b) The oil industry.
(c) The telecommunications industry.
(d) The travel industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is affected when a person's life changes?

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

3. What is a stability zone?

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

5. What effect does an increasing rate of change have on the differences between age groups?

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