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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?
(a) Diminishes nationalism.
(b) Intensifies the territorial instincts.
(c) Deemphasizes the territorial instinct.
(d) Shortens the man-thing relationship.

2. What effect does an increasing rate of change have on the differences between age groups?
(a) It isolates the age groups from each other.
(b) It emphasizes the differences.
(c) It makes the ages more interdependent.
(d) It draws the ages together.

3. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Security.
(c) Power.
(d) Impermanence.

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

5. What is it that affects a person who is undergoing change?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Stress.
(c) Disorientation.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Toffler characterize the society of his times?

3. What is someone supposed to do once they choose their identity?

4. What does Toffler say has become less important in commuter culture?

5. What does Toffler say is the problem with technocrats?

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