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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will be the benefit of a set of descriptive indices?
(a) They could quantify the profitability of new technology.
(b) They could quantify the effect of change.
(c) They could help calibrate one culture with another.
(d) They could create a standard for technological change.

2. What does Toffler say is the consequence of too much change?
(a) Weltschmerz.
(b) Ennui.
(c) Social irrationality.
(d) Misanthropy.

3. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?
(a) Power.
(b) Advertising dollars.
(c) Members.
(d) Funding.

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

5. What does Toffler say is distorted in over-stimulated people?
(a) Their religiousness.
(b) Their sense of injustice.
(c) Their perception of reality.
(d) Their creativity.

6. What does Toffler call modern people who live in tropical climates?
(a) Schizophrenics.
(b) The avant-garde.
(c) Victims of future shock.
(d) Dropouts.

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

8. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?
(a) Because the individual can never internalize society completely.
(b) Because the collectve consciousness will always be struggling to process the earliest tribal memories.
(c) Because man will always be at war with himself.
(d) Because the changes take place beyond the individual's sphere.

9. What does Toffler say continual change causes?
(a) The aggression reaction.
(b) The adaptive reaction.
(c) The suppressive reaction.
(d) The orientation response.

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

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

12. What ability is compromised by too much change?
(a) The ability to follow the law.
(b) The ability to tell right from wrong.
(c) The ability to follow orders.
(d) The ability to act rationally.

13. How can social change be mitigated?
(a) By restricting industrial growth.
(b) By keeping agriculture local.
(c) By examining the consequences of technology.
(d) By keeping agriculture local.

14. What is the other effect of increasing rate of change on different age groups?
(a) It increases diversity.
(b) It increases homogeneity.
(c) It diminishes cultural or regional differences.
(d) It segments the population.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is technology based on in the West, in Toffler's account?

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

3. What would be the outcome of government agencies' involvement in change management?

4. What do subgroups provide for people?

5. What should people be wary of in new technologies?

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