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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What shift does the future bring, in Toffler's account?
(a) From agriculture to high-technology.
(b) From industrialism to democracy.
(c) From democracy to totalitarianism.
(d) From industrialism to super-industrialism.

3. What does Toffler say people get from mobility?
(a) Debt.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Disorientation.
(d) Status.

4. What is the economics of transience?
(a) Investing in the market pays better dividends than saving.
(b) Building temporary housing instead of long-term buildings.
(c) Replacing things is cheaper than repairing them.
(d) Educating children increases a family's future income.

5. What caused migrations in America, in Toffler's account?
(a) The shift from industrialism to super-industrialism.
(b) The shift from producing to consuming.
(c) The shift from exporting to importing.
(d) The rise of the middle class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?

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

3. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?

4. What shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?

5. What does Toffler say has become less important in commuter culture?

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