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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. 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.

2. What symptom does Toffler describe as an aspect of future shock?
(a) Weltschmerz.
(b) Despair.
(c) Disorientation.
(d) Ennui.

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

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

5. What will companies manufacture in Toffler's future?
(a) Computer devices.
(b) Social services.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Transportation networks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?

2. What does Toffler call the new management class?

3. What is the reason for the shortening of relationships?

4. What does Toffler say has been a consequence of mobility in Europe?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does future shock manifest?

2. How is future shock different than culture shock?

3. What does Toffler foresee in the technology of fertility treatments?

4. What is the effect of the acceleration of information?

5. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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

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

8. How will products and services be different in the new economy?

9. What did migration mean in Europe and in America?

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

(see the answer keys)

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