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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler say Shakespeare would experience today?
(a) He would not recognize nature in our language.
(b) He would be appalled by how we treat peasants.
(c) He would understand only half of our words.
(d) He would not be surprised by anything.

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

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

4. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?
(a) More disposable income.
(b) More educational options.
(c) More mobility.
(d) More leisure time.

5. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?
(a) A series of organizational problems to solve.
(b) An unchanging role with a fixed set of expectations.
(c) A reciprocal relationship with an organization that participates in the worker's development.
(d) A flexible role within a developing organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason for the shortening of relationships?

2. In what way is spring break in Ft. Lauderdale exemplary of super-industrial culture?

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

4. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?

5. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?

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