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

2. What is the result of too much change?
(a) Lethargy and apathy.
(b) Anorexia.
(c) Manic depression.
(d) Aggression.

3. What does Toffler call the decision to change lifestyle?
(a) The malady of transience.
(b) An important decision.
(c) A super-decision.
(d) A life-or-death decision.

4. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?
(a) His subordinates.
(b) His competitors.
(c) Co-workers.
(d) His professional peers.

5. How has the grouping of adults changed in recent times, according to Toffler?
(a) Demographic analysis has taken a holistic approach of all ages as interrelated.
(b) Marketers have identified overlapping interests between different age groups.
(c) There are more age groups.
(d) Demographics have focused on regions, not ages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can people develop to mitigate future shock?

2. What will products contain in the future Toffler imagines?

3. What term does Toffler use to describe the future society?

4. What does the automobile contribute to super-industrial culture?

5. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?

(see the answer key)

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