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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?
(a) Diminishes nationalism.
(b) Deemphasizes the territorial instinct.
(c) Intensifies the territorial instincts.
(d) Shortens the man-thing relationship.

3. How will parenthood change in the future Toffler sees?
(a) Babies will be property of the state.
(b) Parents will have to be certified.
(c) It will be legal not biological.
(d) Children will be monitored more closely at schools.

4. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?
(a) More mobility.
(b) More disposable income.
(c) More educational options.
(d) More leisure time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?

2. What is NOT a characteristic of the bureaucracy?

3. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

4. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?

5. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?

(see the answer key)

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