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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is NOT a symptom of future shock?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Withdrawal.
(c) Skepticism.
(d) Violence.

4. What is technology based on in the West, in Toffler's account?
(a) Efficiency.
(b) The common good.
(c) Cost-benefit calculation.
(d) Profit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say the future will do to people?

2. What contributes to the high rate of change in organizations?

3. What is happening to the bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

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

5. What does Toffler say is the real danger we face in the future?

(see the answer key)

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