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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?
(a) Family.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Clerks.
(d) Barbers.

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

3. What will people want in the new economy Toffler imagines?
(a) Constant stimulation.
(b) New forms of leisure.
(c) Psychic gratification.
(d) Durable products.

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

5. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it worthwhile for beach communities?
(a) Influx of talent and intellect.
(b) Student volunteers.
(c) Student energy.
(d) Student spending.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Toffler use to describe marriage in the future?

2. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?

3. What will products contain in the future Toffler imagines?

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

5. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is future shock different than culture shock?

2. How does Toffler describe the pace of modern life and its effect on society?

3. What does Toffler foresee in terms of exploring the ocean?

4. What is the effect of the economics of transience?

5. How does future shock manifest?

6. What is the effect of urbanization on relationships?

7. What does Toffler foresee in the technology of fertility treatments?

8. What are the three characteristics of bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

9. How does transience affect modern society?

10. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

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