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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?
(a) His competitors.
(b) His professional peers.
(c) His subordinates.
(d) Co-workers.

2. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?
(a) More educational options.
(b) More disposable income.
(c) More leisure time.
(d) More mobility.

3. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?
(a) They don't have the same affection for their environment.
(b) They don't know their neighbors as well.
(c) They don't have the same sense of loyalty to the place.
(d) They don't all shop in the same place.

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

5. Who are the people of the future in Toffler's definition?
(a) The people who resist the rat-race.
(b) The fast-paced people.
(c) The traditionalists.
(d) The black sheep of society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen to the current economic model in the future Toffler imagines?

2. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?

3. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?

4. What line will industries blur in the future, according to Toffler?

5. How long does Toffler say it now takes for public value systems to change?

(see the answer key)

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