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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?
(a) They don't all shop in the same place.
(b) They don't have the same sense of loyalty to the place.
(c) They don't have the same affection for their environment.
(d) They don't know their neighbors as well.

2. What will companies manufacture in Toffler's future?
(a) Computer devices.
(b) Transportation networks.
(c) Social services.
(d) Experiences.

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

4. What does Toffler say Shakespeare would experience today?
(a) He would understand only half of our words.
(b) He would not be surprised by anything.
(c) He would not recognize nature in our language.
(d) He would be appalled by how we treat peasants.

5. What do subgroups provide for people?
(a) A way to express political opinions.
(b) A haven from the market.
(c) An income and social belonging.
(d) An antidote for loneliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to the bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

2. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?

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

4. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?

5. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?

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