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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?
(a) Wars over intellectual property.
(b) Cloning.
(c) Cut-throat pharmaceutical companies.
(d) Medical gene therapies.

2. What will the future entail in Toffler's account?
(a) New rules and new roles.
(b) Turmoil and instability.
(c) Progress and happiness.
(d) Destruction and despair.

3. What will not be an option, in Toffler's view of the future?
(a) Implanting embryos in the uterus.
(b) Manipulating genes.
(c) Returning to the past.
(d) Keeping up with the pace of change.

4. In what way is spring break in Ft. Lauderdale exemplary of super-industrial culture?
(a) Students get a degree of freedom they don't have anywhere else.
(b) Students destroy the environment and leave.
(c) Students get to experiment with their personalities.
(d) Students form temporary relationships.

5. What characterizes relationships in big cities, in Tommo's opinion?
(a) They are brief.
(b) They are genuine.
(c) They are fear-based.
(d) They are temporary.

6. What will products contain in the future Toffler imagines?
(a) Smart technology.
(b) Psychological extras.
(c) Embedded identifying chips.
(d) Personalized appearance.

7. What industries does Toffler say will grow in the economy of the future?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Mining.
(c) Oil extraction.
(d) Experience industries.

8. What contributes to the high rate of change in organizations?
(a) Mobility.
(b) Mortgages.
(c) Mechanization.
(d) Mergers.

9. How does Toffler describe the "modular man's" relationships?
(a) They are interchangeable based on roles.
(b) They are replicable from one place to another.
(c) They are optimized for efficiency.
(d) They are limited to specific roles.

10. What is the reason for the shortening of relationships?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Mechanization.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Finance.

11. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?
(a) Longer product lives build customer loyalty.
(b) Shorter product lives decrease the cost of materials.
(c) Fewer traditions makes for less loyal customers.
(d) Shorter product lives increase sales.

12. What makes future shock different than culture shock?
(a) Future shock consists of familiar cues being replaced by unfamiliar cues.
(b) Culture shock only lasts for a generation before assimilation takes place.
(c) Culture shock only happens in modern cultures.
(d) Future shock is a cultural condition.

13. What does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?
(a) Underwater cities.
(b) Undersea warfare.
(c) Environmental degradation.
(d) Tsunamis.

14. What does Toffler say has been a consequence of mobility in Europe?
(a) Worker shortages.
(b) Political instability.
(c) Economic expansion.
(d) Spiritual stagnation.

15. What does Toffler say has become less important in commuter culture?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Distance and place.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say is the real danger we face in the future?

2. What will happen to the current economic model in the future Toffler imagines?

3. What shift does the future bring, in Toffler's account?

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

5. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?

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