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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what field have some countries tried to move away from giving people free choices?
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Education.
(c) Military.
(d) Transportation.

2. In what way is spring break in Ft. Lauderdale exemplary of super-industrial culture?
(a) Students destroy the environment and leave.
(b) Students get to experiment with their personalities.
(c) Students get a degree of freedom they don't have anywhere else.
(d) Students form temporary relationships.

3. What characterizes relationships in big cities, in Tommo's opinion?
(a) They are temporary.
(b) They are fear-based.
(c) They are genuine.
(d) They are brief.

4. How does Toffler say the future should be greeted?
(a) With despair.
(b) With unconditional acceptance.
(c) With wariness.
(d) With equipoise.

5. What do people need to develop for the coming future, in Toffler's opinion?
(a) Religion for teaching people how to act.
(b) Laws for resisting accelerative change.
(c) Mechanisms for coping with change.
(d) Technology for protecting the environment from change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler predict with regard to choice in future culture?

2. What fields will spur the movement that affects choice in the future?

3. How has the grouping of adults changed in recent times, according to Toffler?

4. What does Toffler propose as a method for dealing with future shock?

5. What do "subcults" give the people who belong to them, in Toffler's account?

(see the answer key)

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