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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Toffler say technology will change pregnancy?
(a) Mothers will be able to breast-feed longer.
(b) Babies will be routinely born in only 7 months.
(c) Babies will be screened for diseases before birth.
(d) Babies will be nurtured outside the womb.

3. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?
(a) All modern people.
(b) Developing nations.
(c) Urban populations.
(d) Foreign travelers.

4. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?
(a) They are prevented from following their traditional development.
(b) They are shunted aside as people spend time in individual pursuits.
(c) They are compressed in time, accelerated.
(d) They are delayed in time.

5. What makes future shock different than culture shock?
(a) Culture shock only happens in modern cultures.
(b) Future shock consists of familiar cues being replaced by unfamiliar cues.
(c) Culture shock only lasts for a generation before assimilation takes place.
(d) Future shock is a cultural condition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?

2. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

3. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it worthwhile for beach communities?

4. Where do people typically migrate, in America?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What developments does Toffler foresee in agriculture and food production?

2. How will marriage be affected by the super-industrial culture?

3. What does Toffler foresee in the technology of fertility treatments?

4. How does technology and specialization affect occupations?

5. How does Toffler say commuting has affected the future society?

6. Describe the importance of the automobile in the super-industrial society.

7. What are the three characteristics of bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

8. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

9. How will super-industrialism change the economics of society?

10. How is future shock different than culture shock?

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