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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will the future entail in Toffler's account?
(a) Destruction and despair.
(b) Progress and happiness.
(c) Turmoil and instability.
(d) New rules and new roles.

2. What effect does Toffler say technology will have on education in the future?
(a) Standardized tests will rule the classrooms.
(b) Computerized testing will centralize education.
(c) There will be more alternative schools.
(d) Curricula will be standardized.

3. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?
(a) Cloning.
(b) Wars over intellectual property.
(c) Cut-throat pharmaceutical companies.
(d) Medical gene therapies.

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

5. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?
(a) A series of organizational problems to solve.
(b) A flexible role within a developing organization.
(c) A reciprocal relationship with an organization that participates in the worker's development.
(d) An unchanging role with a fixed set of expectations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symptom does Toffler describe as an aspect of future shock?

2. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?

3. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

4. What does Toffler say helps consolidate each identity?

5. How does Toffler describe the "modular man's" relationships?

(see the answer key)

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