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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 kind of loyalty are the new kinds of organizations based on?
(a) Loyalty to the boss.
(b) Loyalty to the profession.
(c) Loyalty to the nation.
(d) Loyalty to the business.

2. What shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?
(a) From white-collar to blue-collar.
(b) From blue-collar to white-collar.
(c) From second-shift to third shift.
(d) From first-shift to second-shift.

3. What does Toffler propose as a standard for relationships?
(a) Personal intimacy.
(b) Multi-generational knowledge.
(c) Total involvement.
(d) Role-based familiarity.

4. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?
(a) Initiation rituals.
(b) Interactions with many aspects of a person's personality.
(c) Shared spiritual experience.
(d) Genetic similarity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

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

3. How does Toffler describe the "modular man's" relationships?

4. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?

5. What does Toffler call the new management class?

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