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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler say helps consolidate each identity?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Unique currency.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Assemblies.

2. 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 form temporary relationships.
(d) Students get to experiment with their personalities.

3. What does Toffler call the new management class?
(a) Technocracy.
(b) Bureaucracy.
(c) Ad-Hocracy.
(d) Totalitarianism.

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

5. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?
(a) Professional relationships.
(b) Family relationships.
(c) Committed relationships.
(d) Service relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characterizes relationships in big cities, in Tommo's opinion?

2. What is the economics of transience?

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

4. What will be the new influence on the economy of the future?

5. What kind of loyalty are the new kinds of organizations based on?

(see the answer key)

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