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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the right amount of change called?
(a) Behavioral health.
(b) The statistical norm.
(c) Balanced stumulation.
(d) The adaptive range.

2. What does Toffler predict with regard to choice in future culture?
(a) The consolidation of interests in political parties.
(b) The association of like interests.
(c) The interchangeability of people and government roles.
(d) The negation of standardization.

3. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study of the Navy?
(a) A correlation between change and illness.
(b) A correlation between change and feelings of powerlessness.
(c) A correlation between loneliness and aggression.
(d) A correlation between change and depression.

4. What tools will be necessary to determine whether changes should be allowed?
(a) Communication protocols.
(b) Cost benefit analysis tools.
(c) Social networking tools.
(d) Structural modeling tools.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a stability zone?

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

4. What does Toffler say is just as harmful as planning for the future?

5. What will be the benefit of a set of descriptive indices?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who does Toffler use as examples of victims of over-stimulation and future shock?

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

5. How does change affect people's health?

6. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

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

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

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

10. What is the danger of change in a super-industrial culture?

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