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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will changes in agriculture mean for the future Toffler foresees?
(a) Fewer workers will be needed.
(b) More processing will be necessary for food.
(c) Food will be poisoned with pesticides.
(d) Food will be more nutritious.

2. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?
(a) People.
(b) Places.
(c) Morals.
(d) Organizations.

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

4. What is the economics of transience?
(a) Educating children increases a family's future income.
(b) Building temporary housing instead of long-term buildings.
(c) Replacing things is cheaper than repairing them.
(d) Investing in the market pays better dividends than saving.

5. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?
(a) The decline of religion.
(b) The development of digital pornography.
(c) New fertility technologies.
(d) Partners reacting to change differently.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say continual change causes?

2. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?

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

4. What shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?

5. What does the accelerative thrust of society require, in Toffler's account?

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