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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do many people treat change, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They fight it.
(b) They invite it.
(c) They find opportunity in it.
(d) They ignore it.

2. What problem does Toffler describe for professionals in a future society?
(a) They will shrink in size as a social class.
(b) They will not be able to keep up with changes.
(c) They will have more and more power in their fields.
(d) Their industries will become obsolete.

3. What has social change created, in Toffler's account?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Unfreedom.
(c) Revolutionary consciousness.
(d) Overchoice.

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

5. What happens when a group's experience is above the adaptive range?
(a) Shift toward messianism.
(b) Problems of distortion.
(c) Decline in membership.
(d) Reactionary violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?

2. What will be the benefit of a set of descriptive indices?

3. What does Toffler call the decision to change lifestyle?

4. What fields will spur the movement that affects choice in the future?

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

(see the answer key)

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