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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?
(a) Morals.
(b) People.
(c) Places.
(d) Organizations.

2. What does Toffler say about conduct, manners and language?
(a) They are unique to each individual.
(b) There is no broad agreement about them.
(c) They are jeopardized by mass media.
(d) They are standardized by mass media.

3. What is the danger in society's rate of change, in Toffler's opinion?
(a) That it might create the opportunity for totalitarianism.
(b) That it might be faster than man can handle.
(c) That it might leave certain classes behind.
(d) That it might create a new split between classes.

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

5. What will not be an option, in Toffler's view of the future?
(a) Keeping up with the pace of change.
(b) Returning to the past.
(c) Manipulating genes.
(d) Implanting embryos in the uterus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to the bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

2. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?

3. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?

4. What does Toffler call the new management class?

5. Why were alternative schools formed, in Toffler's account?

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