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

2. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?
(a) The development of digital pornography.
(b) New fertility technologies.
(c) Partners reacting to change differently.
(d) The decline of religion.

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

4. What does Toffler say about the oceans?
(a) That they will destroy civilization.
(b) That they will rise.
(c) That they limit the expansion of human societies.
(d) That they have not been mapped.

5. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) They tend to lead to promotion.
(b) They have shorter lifespans.
(c) They tend to trap people in one field.
(d) They make people specialists.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Toffler describe the "modular man's" relationships?

3. What caused migrations in Europe, in Toffler's account?

4. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?

5. What term does Toffler use to describe marriage in the future?

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