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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is affected when a person's life changes?
(a) Their immune system.
(b) Their digestion.
(c) Their psychological adjustment.
(d) Their coping mechanisms.

2. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?
(a) Funding.
(b) Advertising dollars.
(c) Members.
(d) Power.

3. How does Toffler describe a person's choices in the future?
(a) Compelled.
(b) Eliminated.
(c) Limited.
(d) Abundant.

4. What will be the most important skill for the education system to teach in Toffler's future?
(a) To see the divinity in super-industrial culture's evolution.
(b) To capitalize on change.
(c) To understand the basis of industrial society.
(d) To predict the direction of change.

5. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Security.
(c) Power.
(d) Impermanence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How will parenthood change in the future Toffler sees?

3. How long does Toffler say it now takes for public value systems to change?

4. What does change affect in a person's psychology?

5. What does future shock result from?

(see the answer key)

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