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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has commuting changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) People change jobs more often.
(b) People commute farther.
(c) People live longer lives.
(d) People work in more places.

2. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?
(a) They don't all shop in the same place.
(b) They don't have the same affection for their environment.
(c) They don't know their neighbors as well.
(d) They don't have the same sense of loyalty to the place.

3. What will not be an option, in Toffler's view of the future?
(a) Returning to the past.
(b) Implanting embryos in the uterus.
(c) Manipulating genes.
(d) Keeping up with the pace of change.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Toffler say has been a consequence of mobility in Europe?
(a) Economic expansion.
(b) Spiritual stagnation.
(c) Political instability.
(d) Worker shortages.

10. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it worthwhile for beach communities?
(a) Influx of talent and intellect.
(b) Student energy.
(c) Student volunteers.
(d) Student spending.

11. What does the amount of change in an organization contribute to, according to Toffler?
(a) High suicide rates.
(b) Social mobility.
(c) Shorter-duration relationships.
(d) Greater wealth.

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

13. What does Toffler say about the oceans?
(a) That they limit the expansion of human societies.
(b) That they have not been mapped.
(c) That they will destroy civilization.
(d) That they will rise.

14. 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.

15. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?
(a) Cut-throat pharmaceutical companies.
(b) Medical gene therapies.
(c) Wars over intellectual property.
(d) Cloning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?

2. What does the automobile contribute to super-industrial culture?

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

4. What term does Toffler use to describe marriage in the future?

5. What kind of loyalty are the new kinds of organizations based on?

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