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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Change their genetic structure.
(d) Push them toward the top of the adaptive range.

3. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?
(a) Because the individual can never internalize society completely.
(b) Because the collectve consciousness will always be struggling to process the earliest tribal memories.
(c) Because the changes take place beyond the individual's sphere.
(d) Because man will always be at war with himself.

4. How does Toffler say the future should be greeted?
(a) With despair.
(b) With wariness.
(c) With unconditional acceptance.
(d) With equipoise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler propose as a method for dealing with future shock?

2. What industry does Toffler cite as an example of Americans' choices?

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

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

5. What do "subcults" give the people who belong to them, in Toffler's account?

(see the answer key)

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