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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Toffler say people get from mobility?
(a) Disorientation.
(b) Status.
(c) Debt.
(d) Wealth.

5. What kind of loyalty are the new kinds of organizations based on?
(a) Loyalty to the profession.
(b) Loyalty to the business.
(c) Loyalty to the boss.
(d) Loyalty to the nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?

2. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?

3. How has commuting changed in super-industrial culture?

4. What does Toffler say has been a consequence of mobility in Europe?

5. Which groups move most often, in Toffler's account?

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