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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study of the Navy?
(a) A correlation between change and depression.
(b) A correlation between loneliness and aggression.
(c) A correlation between change and feelings of powerlessness.
(d) A correlation between change and illness.

3. What is the reason for the shortening of relationships?
(a) Finance.
(b) Mechanization.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Transportation.

4. What do "subcults" give the people who belong to them, in Toffler's account?
(a) A way to spend their money.
(b) A way to orient themselves.
(c) An individual identity.
(d) An escape from their jobs.

5. What development will affect how we experience choice in our democracy?
(a) Mechanization.
(b) Industrialization.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Standardization.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the other effect of increasing rate of change on different age groups?

4. How do people experience their moral values, in Toffler's future?

5. How has the grouping of adults changed in recent times, according to Toffler?

(see the answer key)

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