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

2. What is the method people use to cope with future shock?

3. What do subgroups provide for people?

4. What is the individual's relationship with the subgroup, in Toffler's account?

5. What do people need to develop for the coming future, in Toffler's opinion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does a subcult give a person?

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

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

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

8. How is super-industrialism affecting the segmentation of the population?

9. What will the place of enclaves be in future society?

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

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

Choose an aspect of future shock, and propose one proactive step an organization, say your school, could take to mitigate its effects on the students, faculty, parents, and staff of the school.

Essay Topic 3

Is future shock a generalized condition of super-industrial culture, or is it a condition that only applies to the people who are suffering under super-industrial conditions? How does Toffler apply the term? How would you apply it?

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