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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has commuting changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) People live longer lives.
(b) People commute farther.
(c) People work in more places.
(d) People change jobs more often.

2. What makes future shock different than culture shock?
(a) Future shock is a cultural condition.
(b) Culture shock only happens in modern cultures.
(c) Future shock consists of familiar cues being replaced by unfamiliar cues.
(d) Culture shock only lasts for a generation before assimilation takes place.

3. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it valuable for students?
(a) The beach is a place to study.
(b) The beach is an escape.
(c) The beach is a different experience.
(d) The beach is a place to apply their learning.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?

2. What does the amount of change in an organization contribute to, according to Toffler?

3. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?

4. What term does Toffler use to describe the future society?

5. What problem does Toffler describe for professionals in a future society?

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