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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler predict men will be able to do?
(a) Farm the ocean floor.
(b) Replicate plant life.
(c) Breathe underwater.
(d) Farm fish.

2. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?
(a) They don't know their neighbors as well.
(b) They don't all shop in the same place.
(c) They don't have the same sense of loyalty to the place.
(d) They don't have the same affection for their environment.

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

4. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?
(a) His professional peers.
(b) Co-workers.
(c) His competitors.
(d) His subordinates.

5. What characterizes relationships in big cities, in Tommo's opinion?
(a) They are brief.
(b) They are genuine.
(c) They are temporary.
(d) They are fear-based.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?

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

3. What makes future shock different than culture shock?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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