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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 shrink in size as a social class.
(c) Their industries will become obsolete.
(d) They will have more and more power in their fields.

2. Which groups move most often, in Toffler's account?
(a) Mechanics.
(b) Technical workers.
(c) Agricultural workers.
(d) Doctors and dentists.

3. What is the consequence of people relocating their homes more often in super-industrial culture?
(a) People are happier when they can find the right place.
(b) People stimulate the economy every time they move.
(c) People fear attachment to any one place.
(d) People become super territorial over their possessions.

4. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?
(a) They are delayed in time.
(b) They are shunted aside as people spend time in individual pursuits.
(c) They are compressed in time, accelerated.
(d) They are prevented from following their traditional development.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?

4. What is the economics of transience?

5. What symptom does Toffler describe as an aspect of future shock?

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