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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of what things cost.
(b) People's sense of how much work things require.
(c) People's sense of how long things take.
(d) People's sense of their relations.

2. What does Toffler say Shakespeare would experience today?
(a) He would be appalled by how we treat peasants.
(b) He would not be surprised by anything.
(c) He would not recognize nature in our language.
(d) He would understand only half of our words.

3. What is the consequence of people relocating their homes more often in super-industrial culture?
(a) People fear attachment to any one place.
(b) People become super territorial over their possessions.
(c) People stimulate the economy every time they move.
(d) People are happier when they can find the right place.

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

5. What is happening to the bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?
(a) It is breaking down.
(b) It is creating unhappiness.
(c) It is institutionalizing inefficiency.
(d) It is choking off progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?

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

3. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

4. What does Toffler say is the consequence of fast rates of change?

5. What kind of loyalty are the new kinds of organizations based on?

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