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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organizations does Toffler cite as an example of an organization that mitigates future shock?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Schools.
(d) Halfway houses.

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

3. What will be the new influence on the economy of the future?
(a) New forms of payment.
(b) New human needs.
(c) New methods of production.
(d) New financial mechanisms.

4. What should people be wary of in new technologies?
(a) Developments that create inequality.
(b) Developments that make old technologies obsolete.
(c) Developments that foster totalitarianism.
(d) Developments that contribute to acceleration.

5. What does Toffler say about conduct, manners and language?
(a) They are standardized by mass media.
(b) They are jeopardized by mass media.
(c) There is no broad agreement about them.
(d) They are unique to each individual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the danger in society's rate of change, in Toffler's opinion?

2. What effect does an increasing rate of change have on the differences between age groups?

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

4. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?

5. What will not be an option, in Toffler's view of the future?

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