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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler predict men will be able to do?
(a) Replicate plant life.
(b) Farm the ocean floor.
(c) Farm fish.
(d) Breathe underwater.

2. What will be the new influence on the economy of the future?
(a) New forms of payment.
(b) New financial mechanisms.
(c) New methods of production.
(d) New human needs.

3. Why were alternative schools formed, in Toffler's account?
(a) To provide for religious education.
(b) To provide people with cheaper education options.
(c) To make schools for all girls or all boys.
(d) To combat the standardization of education.

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

5. What does Toffler say groups have to do?
(a) Restrain the adaptive urge.
(b) Remain the same.
(c) Change.
(d) Compete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will not be an option, in Toffler's view of the future?

2. What does Toffler say the future will do to people?

3. What term does Toffler use to describe the future society?

4. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?

5. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?

(see the answer key)

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