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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How will new technologies help people, in Toffler's opinion?
(a) They will capitalize on change.
(b) They will reduce the impact of changes.
(c) They will increase adaptability.
(d) They will numb people to changes.

2. What does Toffler say groups have to do?
(a) Remain the same.
(b) Change.
(c) Restrain the adaptive urge.
(d) Compete.

3. What makes future shock different than culture shock?
(a) Culture shock only happens in modern cultures.
(b) Future shock consists of familiar cues being replaced by unfamiliar cues.
(c) Future shock is a cultural condition.
(d) Culture shock only lasts for a generation before assimilation takes place.

4. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) They have shorter lifespans.
(b) They make people specialists.
(c) They tend to trap people in one field.
(d) They tend to lead to promotion.

5. What happens when a group's experience is above the adaptive range?
(a) Problems of distortion.
(b) Decline in membership.
(c) Reactionary violence.
(d) Shift toward messianism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toffler characterize society's relation with conduct, manners, and language?

2. What will changes in agriculture mean for the future Toffler foresees?

3. What effect does Toffler say technology will have on education in the future?

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

5. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?

(see the answer key)

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