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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?
(a) People learn to conserve.
(b) People learn to respect each other's labor.
(c) People see things as disposable.
(d) People learn to pay what things are worth.

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

3. How will parenthood change in the future Toffler sees?
(a) Children will be monitored more closely at schools.
(b) It will be legal not biological.
(c) Parents will have to be certified.
(d) Babies will be property of the state.

4. What kind of lifestyle does Toffler say is characterized by frequent moves?
(a) Corporate lifestyle.
(b) Manual laborer lifestyle.
(c) Illegal immigrant lifestyle.
(d) Middle-class lifestyle.

5. What does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?
(a) Tsunamis.
(b) Environmental degradation.
(c) Underwater cities.
(d) Undersea warfare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which groups move most often, in Toffler's account?

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

3. What do subgroups provide for people?

4. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?

5. What does a person get from how they choose their identity?

(see the answer key)

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