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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does the orientation response occur?
(a) Hundreds of times a day.
(b) A few times a week.
(c) A few times a month.
(d) A few times a day.

2. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of how long things take.
(b) People's sense of how much work things require.
(c) People's sense of their relations.
(d) People's sense of what things cost.

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

4. How do people experience their moral values, in Toffler's future?
(a) As directives.
(b) As mystical laws.
(c) As temporary values.
(d) As legal obligations.

5. What will changes in agriculture mean for the future Toffler foresees?
(a) Fewer workers will be needed.
(b) Food will be poisoned with pesticides.
(c) More processing will be necessary for food.
(d) Food will be more nutritious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes future shock different than culture shock?

2. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?

3. What does Toffler propose as a method for dealing with future shock?

4. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study of the Navy?

5. Where do people typically migrate, in America?

(see the answer key)

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