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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of how long things take.
(b) People's sense of their relations.
(c) People's sense of what things cost.
(d) People's sense of how much work things require.

2. What do "subcults" give the people who belong to them, in Toffler's account?
(a) A way to orient themselves.
(b) An escape from their jobs.
(c) A way to spend their money.
(d) An individual identity.

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

4. What is NOT a symptom of future shock?
(a) Withdrawal.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Skepticism.
(d) Violence.

5. With whom do modern people have to identify?
(a) Religious groups.
(b) Subgroups.
(c) Employers.
(d) Families.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is leading the super-industrial revolution?

3. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?

4. What does Toffler call the worker in the new organization?

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

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