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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler predict with regard to choice in future culture?
(a) The negation of standardization.
(b) The consolidation of interests in political parties.
(c) The interchangeability of people and government roles.
(d) The association of like interests.

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

3. What does Toffler say the future will do to people?
(a) Provide for unprecedented numbers of satisfied people.
(b) Push them toward the top of the adaptive range.
(c) Change their genetic structure.
(d) Reinvent the laws of society.

4. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?
(a) Shared spiritual experience.
(b) Genetic similarity.
(c) Interactions with many aspects of a person's personality.
(d) Initiation rituals.

5. What is a stability zone?
(a) An adaptive religion.
(b) A pattern of familiar habits.
(c) A group of familiar people.
(d) A family home to return to.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toffler describe a person's choices in the future?

2. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?

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

4. In what field have some countries tried to move away from giving people free choices?

5. What can people develop to mitigate future shock?

(see the answer key)

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