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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?
(a) People learn to conserve.
(b) People learn to respect each other's labor.
(c) People see things as disposable.
(d) People learn to pay what things are worth.

3. What caused migrations in Europe, in Toffler's account?
(a) The shift from agriculture to industrial society.
(b) The shift from natural to clock time.
(c) The shift from agriculture to manufacturing.
(d) The expansion of the middle class.

4. What will people want in the new economy Toffler imagines?
(a) New forms of leisure.
(b) Constant stimulation.
(c) Durable products.
(d) Psychic gratification.

5. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?
(a) Cloning.
(b) Cut-throat pharmaceutical companies.
(c) Medical gene therapies.
(d) Wars over intellectual property.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?

2. How does Toffler describe the "modular man's" relationships?

3. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?

4. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?

5. What will changes in agriculture mean for the future Toffler foresees?

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