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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is technology based on in the West, in Toffler's account?
(a) The common good.
(b) Profit.
(c) Cost-benefit calculation.
(d) Efficiency.

2. What kind of lifestyle does Toffler say is characterized by frequent moves?
(a) Corporate lifestyle.
(b) Middle-class lifestyle.
(c) Illegal immigrant lifestyle.
(d) Manual laborer lifestyle.

3. What does Toffler say is distorted in over-stimulated people?
(a) Their creativity.
(b) Their perception of reality.
(c) Their religiousness.
(d) Their sense of injustice.

4. What power does society have, to resist advancements?
(a) To block new technologies.
(b) To speak out against the changes.
(c) To bear arms against oppressors.
(d) To revolt against the government.

5. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?
(a) People not knowing what makes sense.
(b) People not being able to afford medical care.
(c) People not having a say in their governments.
(d) People not getting enough food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?

2. What does Toffler propose as a method for dealing with future shock?

3. How has super-industrial culture changed the financial system?

4. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?

5. What does the automobile contribute to super-industrial culture?

(see the answer key)

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