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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has commuting changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) People live longer lives.
(b) People work in more places.
(c) People commute farther.
(d) People change jobs more often.

2. What is causing the revolution in modern society?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) High finance.
(c) Environmental degradation.
(d) Technology.

3. What does a person get from how they choose their identity?
(a) A career.
(b) A lifestyle.
(c) A religion.
(d) A job.

4. 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.

5. What is NOT a characteristic of the bureaucracy?
(a) Organizational relationships are permanent.
(b) People occupy a place in the vertical hierarchy.
(c) People are free to move from one role to another.
(d) People occupy a place in the division of labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Toffler use to describe the future society?

2. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?

3. What will products contain in the future Toffler imagines?

4. What does Toffler say is the consequence of too much change?

5. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?

(see the answer key)

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