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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 benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?
(a) Longer product lives build customer loyalty.
(b) Shorter product lives decrease the cost of materials.
(c) Shorter product lives increase sales.
(d) Fewer traditions makes for less loyal customers.

2. What symptom does Toffler describe as an aspect of future shock?
(a) Disorientation.
(b) Despair.
(c) Weltschmerz.
(d) Ennui.

3. 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.

4. How do many people treat change, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They invite it.
(b) They find opportunity in it.
(c) They fight it.
(d) They ignore it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the economics of transience?

3. What was it that attracted immigrants to America, according to Toffler?

4. What is the consequence of people relocating their homes more often in super-industrial culture?

5. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?

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