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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?
(a) They don't have the same sense of loyalty to the place.
(b) They don't have the same affection for their environment.
(c) They don't know their neighbors as well.
(d) They don't all shop in the same place.

2. What will happen if preventative steps are not taken, in Toffler's account?
(a) Society will be striated by class.
(b) Society will collapse.
(c) People with power will rule unchecked.
(d) Culture will be ruined.

3. Why does Toffler say that adapting to change will ultimately be impossible?
(a) Because the changes take place beyond the individual's sphere.
(b) Because the individual can never internalize society completely.
(c) Because man will always be at war with himself.
(d) Because the collectve consciousness will always be struggling to process the earliest tribal memories.

4. What can government agencies do to measure change?
(a) Impose restrictive tariffs to limit the effect of new technology.
(b) Develop models and perform simulations.
(c) Experiment on a small scale with each new technology.
(d) Impose conditions on each new technology.

5. Who should test new technologies before they can be accepted into society?
(a) Panels of citizens.
(b) The government.
(c) Social leaders.
(d) Private corporations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can social change be mitigated?

2. What does Toffler say about the oceans?

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

4. What is the goal of the education system Toffler imagines?

5. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?

(see the answer key)

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