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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 industries does Toffler say will grow in the economy of the future?
(a) Oil extraction.
(b) Tourism.
(c) Experience industries.
(d) Mining.

2. What does Toffler say is the real danger we face in the future?
(a) Social networks not being able to keep up with change.
(b) Not making plans for what's coming.
(c) Insects developing immunity to pesticides.
(d) Diseases evolving beyond antibiotics.

3. What is the reason for the shortening of relationships?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Finance.
(c) Mechanization.
(d) Transportation.

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

5. Which groups move most often, in Toffler's account?
(a) Technical workers.
(b) Agricultural workers.
(c) Doctors and dentists.
(d) Mechanics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?

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

3. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it valuable for students?

4. What was it that attracted immigrants to America, according to Toffler?

5. How does Toffler say technology will change pregnancy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How will products and services be different in the new economy?

2. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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

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

5. What is the effect of the economics of transience?

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

7. What did migration mean in Europe and in America?

8. How does future shock manifest?

9. What is the modular man?

10. How does Toffler describe the pace of modern life and its effect on society?

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