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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 feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?

2. How do many people treat change, as Toffler describes it?

3. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?

4. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?

5. What is leading the super-industrial revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has home-relocation affected the future society?

2. How is future shock different than culture shock?

3. How will marriage be affected by the super-industrial culture?

4. What does Toffler foresee in the technology of fertility treatments?

5. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

6. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

7. What is the role of the organization in the future society?

8. What is the modular man?

9. What will change mean for the people of the future, in Toffler's account?

10. What is the effect of the economics of transience?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Future Shock fit in Toffler's lifelong works? What other books has he written, and what is Future Shock's relationship with his other books? What are the dominant themes of his writing and career?

Essay Topic 2

How realistic are Toffler's suggestions for mitigating change in culture? How would you characterize his solutions? What do they say about his values? What options does he consider? What options does he not consider? What do they say about his analysis and his priorities? What are the benefits of Toffler's perspective? What are the limitations?

Essay Topic 3

What is "the tradition" Toffler refers to? Pre-industrial Europe? Medieval Europe? Pre-contact North America? Greece and Rome? When were things simpler, and when does Toffler say they changed? What brought about the change?

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