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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused migrations in America, in Toffler's account?
(a) The shift from exporting to importing.
(b) The shift from industrialism to super-industrialism.
(c) The shift from producing to consuming.
(d) The rise of the middle class.

2. What is technology based on in the West, in Toffler's account?
(a) Efficiency.
(b) The common good.
(c) Profit.
(d) Cost-benefit calculation.

3. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?
(a) They lull them into unawareness.
(b) They put them at ease.
(c) They suppress expressivity.
(d) They raise the person's latent frustrations.

4. What problem does Toffler describe for professionals in a future society?
(a) They will not be able to keep up with changes.
(b) They will have more and more power in their fields.
(c) They will shrink in size as a social class.
(d) Their industries will become obsolete.

5. What does a person get from how they choose their identity?
(a) A career.
(b) A lifestyle.
(c) A job.
(d) A religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the process of preparing for the future begin, according to Toffler?

2. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?

3. With whom do modern people have to identify?

4. What is happening to the bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

5. What does Toffler say is the consequence of too much change?

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