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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 shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?
(a) From second-shift to third shift.
(b) From blue-collar to white-collar.
(c) From white-collar to blue-collar.
(d) From first-shift to second-shift.

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

3. What is causing the revolution in modern society?
(a) Technology.
(b) Urbanization.
(c) High finance.
(d) Environmental degradation.

4. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Security.
(c) Impermanence.
(d) Power.

5. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?
(a) Diminishes nationalism.
(b) Shortens the man-thing relationship.
(c) Deemphasizes the territorial instinct.
(d) Intensifies the territorial instincts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do many people treat change, as Toffler describes it?

2. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?

3. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?

4. Who are the people of the future in Toffler's definition?

5. What is the consequence of high mobility, according to Toffler?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does future shock manifest?

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

4. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

5. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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

7. What does Toffler foresee in terms of exploring the ocean?

8. How does Toffler describe deeper relationships?

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

10. How has home-relocation affected the future society?

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