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

2. What term does Toffler use to describe the future society?
(a) Technological totalitarianism.
(b) Mega-production.
(c) Super-industrialism.
(d) Transnational capitalism.

3. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?
(a) People learn to pay what things are worth.
(b) People learn to conserve.
(c) People learn to respect each other's labor.
(d) People see things as disposable.

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

5. How has commuting changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) People live longer lives.
(b) People work in more places.
(c) People change jobs more often.
(d) People commute farther.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say has become less important in commuter culture?

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

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

4. How do many people treat change, as Toffler describes it?

5. What will companies manufacture in Toffler's future?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the effect of urbanization on relationships?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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