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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characterizes relationships in big cities, in Tommo's opinion?
(a) They are genuine.
(b) They are fear-based.
(c) They are temporary.
(d) They are brief.

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

3. What happens when a group's experience is above the adaptive range?
(a) Reactionary violence.
(b) Problems of distortion.
(c) Shift toward messianism.
(d) Decline in membership.

4. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?
(a) Initiation rituals.
(b) Interactions with many aspects of a person's personality.
(c) Genetic similarity.
(d) Shared spiritual experience.

5. What effect does Toffler say technology will have on education in the future?
(a) Computerized testing will centralize education.
(b) There will be more alternative schools.
(c) Standardized tests will rule the classrooms.
(d) Curricula will be standardized.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were alternative schools formed, in Toffler's account?

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

3. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?

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

5. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?

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