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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Toffler say people get from mobility?
(a) Status.
(b) Debt.
(c) Disorientation.
(d) Wealth.

3. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They develop "durational expectancies."
(b) They repeat the experiences of their ancestors.
(c) They measure their progress against the seasons.
(d) They keep solar calendars.

4. What does Toffler say about the oceans?
(a) That they will destroy civilization.
(b) That they will rise.
(c) That they have not been mapped.
(d) That they limit the expansion of human societies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?

2. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?

3. What animals have been used in underwater research?

4. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?

5. What is the economics of transience?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does technology and specialization affect occupations?

2. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

3. How does transience affect modern society?

4. How does future shock manifest?

5. How does Toffler say commuting has affected the future society?

6. What is the role of the organization in the future society?

7. What is the effect of the economics of transience?

8. What is the effect of urbanization on relationships?

9. How has home-relocation affected the future society?

10. What is the effect of change within organizations on future society?

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