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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 benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?
(a) Shorter product lives decrease the cost of materials.
(b) Fewer traditions makes for less loyal customers.
(c) Shorter product lives increase sales.
(d) Longer product lives build customer loyalty.

2. 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.

3. What shift does the future bring, in Toffler's account?
(a) From industrialism to democracy.
(b) From agriculture to high-technology.
(c) From industrialism to super-industrialism.
(d) From democracy to totalitarianism.

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

5. What term does Toffler use to describe marriage in the future?
(a) Civil union.
(b) Morganatic marriage.
(c) Serial marriage.
(d) Common-law marriage.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?

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

5. What does Toffler predict men will be able to do?

(see the answer key)

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