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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the individual's relationship with the subgroup, in Toffler's account?
(a) He subordinates his ideas to the group's.
(b) He serves as the group's representative wherever he goes.
(c) He pledges to bring new converts to the subgroup.
(d) He identifies with certain characteristics and adapts them to his personality.

4. What is someone supposed to do once they choose their identity?
(a) Convert others to that same identity.
(b) Make new friends.
(c) Conform to the subgroup.
(d) Invent new identities.

5. What industry does Toffler cite as an example of Americans' choices?
(a) The oil industry.
(b) The auto industry.
(c) The travel industry.
(d) The telecommunications industry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?

3. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?

4. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

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

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