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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What caused migrations in America, in Toffler's account?
(a) The shift from producing to consuming.
(b) The shift from industrialism to super-industrialism.
(c) The shift from exporting to importing.
(d) The rise of the middle class.

5. What does Toffler say is the real danger we face in the future?
(a) Not making plans for what's coming.
(b) Diseases evolving beyond antibiotics.
(c) Insects developing immunity to pesticides.
(d) Social networks not being able to keep up with change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler call the worker in the new organization?

2. How does Toffler say technology will change pregnancy?

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

4. What animals have been used in underwater research?

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

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