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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of how much work things require.
(b) People's sense of what things cost.
(c) People's sense of their relations.
(d) People's sense of how long things take.

2. How does Toffler say technology will change pregnancy?
(a) Babies will be routinely born in only 7 months.
(b) Mothers will be able to breast-feed longer.
(c) Babies will be screened for diseases before birth.
(d) Babies will be nurtured outside the womb.

3. What does Toffler propose as a standard for relationships?
(a) Role-based familiarity.
(b) Total involvement.
(c) Personal intimacy.
(d) Multi-generational knowledge.

4. What was it that attracted immigrants to America, according to Toffler?
(a) The fast-paced life.
(b) The right to free speech.
(c) The freedom from the past.
(d) The political stability.

5. What is leading the super-industrial revolution?
(a) Government deregulation.
(b) Distribution channels.
(c) Free trade associations.
(d) Scientific technology.

6. Where do people typically migrate, in America?
(a) To the suburbs.
(b) To the cities.
(c) To where there are jobs.
(d) To the exurbs.

7. What medical developments does Toffler say will result in moral conundrums?
(a) Organ transplants.
(b) Cancer surgery.
(c) Better joint replacement techniques.
(d) Preventative care techniques.

8. What is causing the revolution in modern society?
(a) High finance.
(b) Environmental degradation.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Technology.

9. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?
(a) Living underwater.
(b) Mapping underwater resources.
(c) Whaling.
(d) Using bacteria in food production.

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

11. What does Toffler call the new management class?
(a) Technocracy.
(b) Ad-Hocracy.
(c) Bureaucracy.
(d) Totalitarianism.

12. What caused migrations in Europe, in Toffler's account?
(a) The shift from natural to clock time.
(b) The expansion of the middle class.
(c) The shift from agriculture to industrial society.
(d) The shift from agriculture to manufacturing.

13. How does Toffler describe future shock?
(a) As an opportunity.
(b) As a temporary condition.
(c) As a disease.
(d) As a transformative agent.

14. What line will industries blur in the future, according to Toffler?
(a) Between public and private.
(b) Between expenses and deductions.
(c) Between reality and illusion.
(d) Between revenue and profit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?

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

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

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

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

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