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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Toffler say the future will do to people?
(a) Provide for unprecedented numbers of satisfied people.
(b) Reinvent the laws of society.
(c) Push them toward the top of the adaptive range.
(d) Change their genetic structure.

3. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?
(a) Committed relationships.
(b) Family relationships.
(c) Service relationships.
(d) Professional relationships.

4. How has the grouping of adults changed in recent times, according to Toffler?
(a) Demographics have focused on regions, not ages.
(b) There are more age groups.
(c) Demographic analysis has taken a holistic approach of all ages as interrelated.
(d) Marketers have identified overlapping interests between different age groups.

5. What organizations does Toffler cite as an example of an organization that mitigates future shock?
(a) Halfway houses.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Schools.
(d) Hospitals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler propose as a standard for relationships?

2. In what field have some countries tried to move away from giving people free choices?

3. What effect does an increasing rate of change have on the differences between age groups?

4. What development will affect how we experience choice in our democracy?

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

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