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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has commuting changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) People live longer lives.
(b) People work in more places.
(c) People change jobs more often.
(d) People commute farther.

2. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it valuable for students?
(a) The beach is a different experience.
(b) The beach is a place to study.
(c) The beach is an escape.
(d) The beach is a place to apply their learning.

3. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?
(a) Partners reacting to change differently.
(b) The decline of religion.
(c) New fertility technologies.
(d) The development of digital pornography.

4. What does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?
(a) Undersea warfare.
(b) Underwater cities.
(c) Environmental degradation.
(d) Tsunamis.

5. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?
(a) Living underwater.
(b) Mapping underwater resources.
(c) Whaling.
(d) Using bacteria in food production.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?

3. What power does society have, to resist advancements?

4. Where does the process of preparing for the future begin, according to Toffler?

5. What is the behavioral consequence of the psychological effects of change?

(see the answer key)

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