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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of how long things take.
(b) People's sense of their relations.
(c) People's sense of what things cost.
(d) People's sense of how much work things require.

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

3. What will changes in agriculture mean for the future Toffler foresees?
(a) More processing will be necessary for food.
(b) Food will be poisoned with pesticides.
(c) Fewer workers will be needed.
(d) Food will be more nutritious.

4. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?
(a) Transience.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Spirituality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?

3. What is the consequence of high mobility, according to Toffler?

4. What does Toffler say has become less important in commuter culture?

5. How do many people treat change, as Toffler describes it?

(see the answer key)

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