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

2. 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 become super territorial over their possessions.
(c) People stimulate the economy every time they move.
(d) People fear attachment to any one place.

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

4. What medical developments does Toffler say will result in moral conundrums?
(a) Preventative care techniques.
(b) Better joint replacement techniques.
(c) Cancer surgery.
(d) Organ transplants.

5. What does Toffler say Shakespeare would experience today?
(a) He would not be surprised by anything.
(b) He would not recognize nature in our language.
(c) He would understand only half of our words.
(d) He would be appalled by how we treat peasants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?

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

3. What does Toffler say about the oceans?

4. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?

5. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it worthwhile for beach communities?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Toffler describe deeper relationships?

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

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

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

7. How does transience affect modern society?

8. How does future shock manifest?

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

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

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