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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What will changes in agriculture mean for the future Toffler foresees?
(a) More processing will be necessary for food.
(b) Food will be more nutritious.
(c) Fewer workers will be needed.
(d) Food will be poisoned with pesticides.
2. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?
(a) People not being able to afford medical care.
(b) People not knowing what makes sense.
(c) People not getting enough food.
(d) People not having a say in their governments.
3. How has commuting changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) People change jobs more often.
(b) People live longer lives.
(c) People work in more places.
(d) People commute farther.
4. What contributes to the high rate of change in organizations?
(a) Mergers.
(b) Mobility.
(c) Mortgages.
(d) Mechanization.
5. Who are the people of the future in Toffler's definition?
(a) The black sheep of society.
(b) The traditionalists.
(c) The people who resist the rat-race.
(d) The fast-paced people.
6. What line will industries blur in the future, according to Toffler?
(a) Between public and private.
(b) Between reality and illusion.
(c) Between revenue and profit.
(d) Between expenses and deductions.
7. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They keep solar calendars.
(b) They repeat the experiences of their ancestors.
(c) They measure their progress against the seasons.
(d) They develop "durational expectancies."
8. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?
(a) Diminishes nationalism.
(b) Deemphasizes the territorial instinct.
(c) Shortens the man-thing relationship.
(d) Intensifies the territorial instincts.
9. Where do people typically migrate, in America?
(a) To the suburbs.
(b) To the exurbs.
(c) To where there are jobs.
(d) To the cities.
10. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?
(a) A reciprocal relationship with an organization that participates in the worker's development.
(b) A series of organizational problems to solve.
(c) An unchanging role with a fixed set of expectations.
(d) A flexible role within a developing organization.
11. What symptom does Toffler describe as an aspect of future shock?
(a) Weltschmerz.
(b) Ennui.
(c) Disorientation.
(d) Despair.
12. What characterizes relationships in big cities, in Tommo's opinion?
(a) They are brief.
(b) They are genuine.
(c) They are temporary.
(d) They are fear-based.
13. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?
(a) Living underwater.
(b) Using bacteria in food production.
(c) Whaling.
(d) Mapping underwater resources.
14. What is happening to the bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?
(a) It is institutionalizing inefficiency.
(b) It is choking off progress.
(c) It is breaking down.
(d) It is creating unhappiness.
15. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?
(a) Interactions with many aspects of a person's personality.
(b) Initiation rituals.
(c) Shared spiritual experience.
(d) Genetic similarity.
Short Answer Questions
1. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?
2. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?
3. What will companies manufacture in Toffler's future?
4. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?
5. What is causing the revolution in modern society?
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