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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characterizes relationships in big cities, in Tommo's opinion?
(a) They are brief.
(b) They are fear-based.
(c) They are temporary.
(d) They are genuine.

2. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Transience.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Spirituality.

3. What is happening to the bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?
(a) It is institutionalizing inefficiency.
(b) It is breaking down.
(c) It is choking off progress.
(d) It is creating unhappiness.

4. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?
(a) Foreign travelers.
(b) All modern people.
(c) Developing nations.
(d) Urban populations.

5. What term does Toffler use to describe the future society?
(a) Super-industrialism.
(b) Technological totalitarianism.
(c) Transnational capitalism.
(d) Mega-production.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?

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

4. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?

5. What is causing the revolution in modern society?

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