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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?
(a) People not getting enough food.
(b) People not having a say in their governments.
(c) People not knowing what makes sense.
(d) People not being able to afford medical care.

2. How does Toffler say technology will change pregnancy?
(a) Babies will be routinely born in only 7 months.
(b) Babies will be screened for diseases before birth.
(c) Babies will be nurtured outside the womb.
(d) Mothers will be able to breast-feed longer.

3. What will companies manufacture in Toffler's future?
(a) Computer devices.
(b) Social services.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Transportation networks.

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

5. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?
(a) Cut-throat pharmaceutical companies.
(b) Cloning.
(c) Wars over intellectual property.
(d) Medical gene therapies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?

2. What does the automobile contribute to super-industrial culture?

3. What does Toffler propose as a standard for relationships?

4. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?

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

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