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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 will the future entail in Toffler's account?
(a) New rules and new roles.
(b) Progress and happiness.
(c) Turmoil and instability.
(d) Destruction and despair.

2. What is the economics of transience?
(a) Investing in the market pays better dividends than saving.
(b) Replacing things is cheaper than repairing them.
(c) Educating children increases a family's future income.
(d) Building temporary housing instead of long-term buildings.

3. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?
(a) Co-workers.
(b) His professional peers.
(c) His subordinates.
(d) His competitors.

4. What caused migrations in Europe, in Toffler's account?
(a) The shift from agriculture to industrial society.
(b) The shift from natural to clock time.
(c) The expansion of the middle class.
(d) The shift from agriculture to manufacturing.

5. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?
(a) People learn to conserve.
(b) People learn to respect each other's labor.
(c) People learn to pay what things are worth.
(d) People see things as disposable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused migrations in America, in Toffler's account?

2. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?

3. What shift does the future bring, in Toffler's account?

4. What kind of loyalty are the new kinds of organizations based on?

5. What does the automobile contribute to super-industrial culture?

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