| 1. |
Add the next term to the
series: |
| |
(a) |
walk; |
| |
(b) |
ride horseback; |
| |
(c) |
fly by jet; |
| |
(d) |
___________ . |
| 2. |
A certain job can be
performed either by a human or a machine. We should |
| |
(a) |
employ the human because “the devil makes work for
idle hands.” |
| |
(b) |
employ the human because otherwise he or she might
be bored. |
| |
(c) |
employ the human because there is no way to
organize society except by having most people work for wages. |
| |
(d) |
employ the machine because technology has no other
function than to free people from toil. |
| 3. |
Add the next term to the
series: |
| |
(a) |
hunt and gather; |
| |
(b) |
farm; |
| |
(c) |
industry-commerce; |
| |
(d) |
___________ . |
| 4. |
There is a magic machine
with two buttons, each of which will create equality among humans.
You will push |
| |
(a) |
the button that makes everybody equally poor; |
| |
(b) |
the button that makes everybody equally rich. |
| 5. |
Add the next term to the
series: |
| |
(a) |
stone tablet; |
| |
(b) |
ink and paper; |
| |
(c) |
global TV; |
| |
(d) |
___________ . |
| 6. |
Working for wages |
| |
(a) |
has always existed and always will exist; |
| |
(b) |
is ordained by God |
| |
(c) |
did not appear on large scale until the Enclosure
Acts drove the serfs off the land in the past 300 years; |
| |
(d) |
will become obsolete in the next 100 years; |
| |
(e) |
will become obsolete in the next 10 years. |
| 7. |
Add the next term to the
series: |
| |
(a) |
numbers; |
| |
(b) |
calendars; |
| |
(c) |
scientific laws; |
| |
(d) |
___________ . |
| 8. |
There are more scientists
alive today than in all previous history. Toffler, among others,
says this means we will have more changes in the next 30 years than
in all previous history. We should therefore: |
| |
(a) |
force half or more of the scientists to become shoe clerks or grocers so things don’t change
too fast; |
| |
(b) |
establish a government committee to supervise all
scientific research, thereby slowing it down even more; |
| |
(c) |
learn to raise general intelligence to cope with
change. |
| 9. |
The best way to search for
Higher Intelligence is to |
| |
(a) |
find the right religion; |
| |
(b) |
support Carl Sagan’s Project Cyclops, which is
searching for radio signals from advanced civilizations in the
galaxy; |
| |
(c) |
investigate UFOs; |
| |
(d) |
research our own nervous systems; |
| |
(e) |
build a starship and go looking. |
| 10. |
Add the next term to the
series: |
| |
(a) |
egocentric; |
| |
(b) |
chauvinistic; |
| |
(c) |
terracentric; |
| |
(d) |
___________ . |
| 11. |
Time magazine says
that “within 15 years” we will have the techniques to change our
nervous systems for perpetual bliss. |
| |
(a) |
This is horrible; we’ll all be destroyed by
hedonism. |
| |
(b) |
This is fine; what else is neurological research
good for? |
| |
(c) |
We’ve had the techniques since 1960, but
imprisonment and harassment has silenced those who know about
them. |
| 12. |
Add the next term to the
series: |
| |
(a) |
Black Pride; |
| |
(b) |
Women’s Lib; |
| |
(c) |
Gay Lib; |
| |
(d) |
___________ . |
| 13. |
Who do you believe : |
| |
(a) |
conservative authorities who say lifespan will
never increase much more than at present? |
| |
(b) |
Gerontologist Paul Segall, who says we can have
500-year lifespans? |
| |
(c) |
Biologist Johan Bjorkstein, who says we can have
800 years? |
| |
(d) |
Robert Phedra, M.D., who says we can have 1,000
years? |
| |
(e) |
Physicist R. C. W. Ettinger, who says we can have
immortality? |
| 14. |
The accepted opinions of
today will seem quaint and somewhat inaccurate by: |
| |
(a) |
2000; |
| |
(b) |
2050; |
| |
(c) |
2100. |
| 15. |
The accepted opinions of
today will appear to be idiotic superstitions by: |
| |
(a) |
1986; |
| |
(b) |
2000; |
| |
(c) |
2100; |
| |
(d) |
3000. |
| 16. |
Add the next term to the
series: |
| |
(a) |
non-Euclidean geometry; |
| |
(b) |
non-Newtonian physics; |
| |
(c) |
non-Aristotelian logic; |
| |
(d) |
___________ . |
Courage is a habit like any other. So
is cowardice.
Less than thirty years ago it was
believed by many intellectuals that the United States was a
matriarchy. The intellectuals who believed this were all males, but
I don’t know any other explanation for them.
The most
intelligent book on contemporary American politics, I think, is
Carl Oglesby’s The Yankee and Cowboy War; and yet the whole
book pivots on an enormous fallacy. What the Cowboys (Western
money, as distinguished from the Yankee Establishment) do not
understand, Oglesby solemnly informs us, is that “there is no more
frontier.” He sounds like a very narrow European writing in 1491;
except that our Columbus has already sailed—our Columbuses, rather,
since there have been over 100 of them. I wonder how many of the
Cowboys can see the High Frontier invisible to Oglesby? And I
wonder if Oglesby has investigated how much Cowboy wealth is
invested in space industry?
