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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 economics of transience?
(a) Replacing things is cheaper than repairing them.
(b) Educating children increases a family's future income.
(c) Building temporary housing instead of long-term buildings.
(d) Investing in the market pays better dividends than saving.

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

3. What does Toffler say people get from mobility?
(a) Disorientation.
(b) Debt.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Status.

4. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?
(a) People.
(b) Organizations.
(c) Morals.
(d) Places.

5. What kind of lifestyle does Toffler say is characterized by frequent moves?
(a) Manual laborer lifestyle.
(b) Corporate lifestyle.
(c) Middle-class lifestyle.
(d) Illegal immigrant lifestyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?

2. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?

3. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?

4. How does Toffler describe future shock?

5. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?

(see the answer key)

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