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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?
(a) As a new class of citizens.
(b) As something that turns men into cogs.
(c) As the apotheosis for individuality.
(d) As the salvation of the masses.

2. What shift does the future bring, in Toffler's account?
(a) From agriculture to high-technology.
(b) From industrialism to democracy.
(c) From industrialism to super-industrialism.
(d) From democracy to totalitarianism.

3. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?
(a) Foreign travelers.
(b) Urban populations.
(c) Developing nations.
(d) All modern people.

4. What does Toffler call the worker in the new organization?
(a) Family man.
(b) Associative man.
(c) Corporate man.
(d) Fraternal man.

5. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) Family.
(c) Barbers.
(d) Clerks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Toffler describe future shock?

3. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?

4. What is the economics of transience?

5. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?

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