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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 feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?
(a) Impermanence.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Security.
(d) Power.

2. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?
(a) Goldman Sachs.
(b) Exxon.
(c) Bank of America.
(d) Club med.

3. What caused migrations in America, in Toffler's account?
(a) The shift from producing to consuming.
(b) The shift from industrialism to super-industrialism.
(c) The shift from exporting to importing.
(d) The rise of the middle class.

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

5. What does Toffler say is the real danger we face in the future?
(a) Social networks not being able to keep up with change.
(b) Insects developing immunity to pesticides.
(c) Diseases evolving beyond antibiotics.
(d) Not making plans for what's coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the consequence of people relocating their homes more often in super-industrial culture?

2. What does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?

3. What makes future shock different than culture shock?

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

5. What was it that attracted immigrants to America, according to Toffler?

Short Essay Questions

1. How will super-industrialism change the economics of society?

2. Describe the importance of the automobile in the super-industrial society.

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

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

5. What will change mean for the people of the future, in Toffler's account?

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

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

8. How does Toffler describe the pace of modern life and its effect on society?

9. What is the effect of urbanization on relationships?

10. What is the modular man?

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