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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a person get from how they choose their identity?
(a) A job.
(b) A religion.
(c) A career.
(d) A lifestyle.

2. What is the consequence of high mobility, according to Toffler?
(a) Non-involvement in the community.
(b) Class consolidation in the suburbs.
(c) Political involvement.
(d) Nationalism.

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

4. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?
(a) Cut-throat pharmaceutical companies.
(b) Wars over intellectual property.
(c) Medical gene therapies.
(d) Cloning.

5. Why were alternative schools formed, in Toffler's account?
(a) To combat the standardization of education.
(b) To make schools for all girls or all boys.
(c) To provide for religious education.
(d) To provide people with cheaper education options.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?

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

3. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?

4. What does Toffler say about conduct, manners and language?

5. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?

(see the answer key)

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