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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do people need to develop for the coming future, in Toffler's opinion?
(a) Technology for protecting the environment from change.
(b) Laws for resisting accelerative change.
(c) Religion for teaching people how to act.
(d) Mechanisms for coping with change.

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

4. What industry does Toffler cite as an example of Americans' choices?
(a) The auto industry.
(b) The travel industry.
(c) The telecommunications industry.
(d) The oil industry.

5. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) They tend to trap people in one field.
(b) They make people specialists.
(c) They have shorter lifespans.
(d) They tend to lead to promotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say the future will do to people?

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

3. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?

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

5. What fields will spur the movement that affects choice in the future?

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