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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 is the consequence of people relocating their homes more often in super-industrial culture?
(a) People are happier when they can find the right place.
(b) People fear attachment to any one place.
(c) People stimulate the economy every time they move.
(d) People become super territorial over their possessions.

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

3. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?
(a) More educational options.
(b) More leisure time.
(c) More mobility.
(d) More disposable income.

4. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?
(a) As the apotheosis for individuality.
(b) As something that turns men into cogs.
(c) As the salvation of the masses.
(d) As a new class of citizens.

5. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?
(a) All modern people.
(b) Developing nations.
(c) Urban populations.
(d) Foreign travelers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toffler say technology will change pregnancy?

2. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?

3. What caused migrations in Europe, in Toffler's account?

4. What is the economics of transience?

5. What animals have been used in underwater research?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Toffler say is the danger of high technology?

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

3. How does transience affect modern society?

4. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

5. How does technology and specialization affect occupations?

6. What developments does Toffler foresee in agriculture and food production?

7. What are the three characteristics of bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

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

9. What is the modular man?

10. What is a durational expectancy, and how has modern society affected durational expectancies?

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