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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?
(a) People see things as disposable.
(b) People learn to conserve.
(c) People learn to pay what things are worth.
(d) People learn to respect each other's labor.

2. How do people experience their moral values, in Toffler's future?
(a) As mystical laws.
(b) As legal obligations.
(c) As temporary values.
(d) As directives.

3. What does Toffler say groups have to do?
(a) Restrain the adaptive urge.
(b) Compete.
(c) Change.
(d) Remain the same.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that affects a person who is undergoing change?

2. What does future shock result from?

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

4. What caused migrations in Europe, in Toffler's account?

5. What is causing the revolution in modern society?

(see the answer key)

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