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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen to the current economic model in the future Toffler imagines?
(a) It will cause tension and conflict with the new model.
(b) It will cause turmoil as it dies out in the future.
(c) It will adapt to the new environment.
(d) It will not be applicable.

2. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?
(a) Advertising dollars.
(b) Funding.
(c) Power.
(d) Members.

3. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They keep solar calendars.
(b) They develop "durational expectancies."
(c) They repeat the experiences of their ancestors.
(d) They measure their progress against the seasons.

4. 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.

5. How long does Toffler say it now takes for public value systems to change?
(a) Every few hundred years.
(b) Within a lifetime.
(c) Every few years.
(d) Every few generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will companies manufacture in Toffler's future?

2. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?

3. What do subgroups provide for people?

4. What does a person get from how they choose their identity?

5. What was it that attracted immigrants to America, according to Toffler?

(see the answer key)

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