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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the consequence of high mobility, according to Toffler?
(a) Political involvement.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Class consolidation in the suburbs.
(d) Non-involvement in the community.

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

3. What makes future shock different than culture shock?
(a) Future shock consists of familiar cues being replaced by unfamiliar cues.
(b) Culture shock only lasts for a generation before assimilation takes place.
(c) Culture shock only happens in modern cultures.
(d) Future shock is a cultural condition.

4. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?
(a) Power.
(b) Impermanence.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Security.

5. Who are the people of the future in Toffler's definition?
(a) The traditionalists.
(b) The people who resist the rat-race.
(c) The black sheep of society.
(d) The fast-paced people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?

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

3. Where do people typically migrate, in America?

4. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?

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

(see the answer key)

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