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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?
(a) Committed relationships.
(b) Professional relationships.
(c) Family relationships.
(d) Service relationships.

2. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?
(a) Medical gene therapies.
(b) Cut-throat pharmaceutical companies.
(c) Wars over intellectual property.
(d) Cloning.

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

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

5. What shift does the future bring, in Toffler's account?
(a) From industrialism to super-industrialism.
(b) From agriculture to high-technology.
(c) From democracy to totalitarianism.
(d) From industrialism to democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?

2. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?

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

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

5. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?

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