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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do many people treat change, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They find opportunity in it.
(b) They ignore it.
(c) They fight it.
(d) They invite it.

2. How does Toffler describe future shock?
(a) As an opportunity.
(b) As a transformative agent.
(c) As a temporary condition.
(d) As a disease.

3. How does Toffler describe a person's choices in the future?
(a) Eliminated.
(b) Abundant.
(c) Limited.
(d) Compelled.

4. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Transience.
(d) Spirituality.

5. What will happen to the current economic model in the future Toffler imagines?
(a) It will cause turmoil as it dies out in the future.
(b) It will not be applicable.
(c) It will cause tension and conflict with the new model.
(d) It will adapt to the new environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study?

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

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

4. What does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?

5. What is a stability zone?

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