Future Shock Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Future Shock Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason for the shortening of relationships?
(a) Finance.
(b) Mechanization.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Transportation.

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

3. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They develop "durational expectancies."
(b) They repeat the experiences of their ancestors.
(c) They measure their progress against the seasons.
(d) They keep solar calendars.

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

5. Where do people typically migrate, in America?
(a) To the exurbs.
(b) To the cities.
(c) To where there are jobs.
(d) To the suburbs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What problem does Toffler describe for professionals in a future society?

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

4. How does Toffler describe the "modular man's" relationships?

5. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?

(see the answer key)

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