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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They keep solar calendars.
(b) They develop "durational expectancies."
(c) They measure their progress against the seasons.
(d) They repeat the experiences of their ancestors.

2. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?
(a) More disposable income.
(b) More leisure time.
(c) More educational options.
(d) More mobility.

3. What symptom does Toffler describe as an aspect of future shock?
(a) Disorientation.
(b) Despair.
(c) Ennui.
(d) Weltschmerz.

4. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?
(a) Bank of America.
(b) Goldman Sachs.
(c) Club med.
(d) Exxon.

5. How does Toffler describe future shock?
(a) As a transformative agent.
(b) As an opportunity.
(c) As a disease.
(d) As a temporary condition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say Shakespeare would experience today?

2. In what way is spring break in Ft. Lauderdale exemplary of super-industrial culture?

3. What will happen to the current economic model in the future Toffler imagines?

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

5. How does Toffler describe a person's choices in the future?

(see the answer key)

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