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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. How do people experience their moral values, in Toffler's future?
(a) As legal obligations.
(b) As mystical laws.
(c) As temporary values.
(d) As directives.

2. What part of change can be manipulated to prevent or mitigate future shock?
(a) Technological advances.
(b) People's behaviors.
(c) Legal statutes.
(d) Market behaviors.

3. What is NOT a symptom of future shock?
(a) Violence.
(b) Skepticism.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Withdrawal.

4. What does Toffler say groups have to do?
(a) Remain the same.
(b) Restrain the adaptive urge.
(c) Compete.
(d) Change.

5. What effect does Toffler say technology will have on education in the future?
(a) Computerized testing will centralize education.
(b) There will be more alternative schools.
(c) Standardized tests will rule the classrooms.
(d) Curricula will be standardized.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toffler characterize society's relation with conduct, manners, and language?

2. What does Toffler say is distorted in over-stimulated people?

3. What can government agencies do to measure change?

4. What does Toffler propose in order to institute his plan to protect against future shock?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does an individual need to do to prepare for the future and avoid future shock?

2. What physical systems does Toffler associate with illness from change?

3. What will planners need to have in order to make an education system that prepares people for the future?

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

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

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

7. What purpose do subcults serve?

8. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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