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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what way is spring break in Ft. Lauderdale exemplary of super-industrial culture?
(a) Students get to experiment with their personalities.
(b) Students destroy the environment and leave.
(c) Students get a degree of freedom they don't have anywhere else.
(d) Students form temporary relationships.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toffler say the future should be greeted?

2. What is a stability zone?

3. What is the other effect of increasing rate of change on different age groups?

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

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

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