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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused migrations in America, in Toffler's account?
(a) The shift from producing to consuming.
(b) The shift from exporting to importing.
(c) The rise of the middle class.
(d) The shift from industrialism to super-industrialism.

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

3. What does Toffler predict men will be able to do?
(a) Farm fish.
(b) Farm the ocean floor.
(c) Breathe underwater.
(d) Replicate plant life.

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

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

6. What term does Toffler use to describe marriage in the future?
(a) Serial marriage.
(b) Civil union.
(c) Common-law marriage.
(d) Morganatic marriage.

7. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?
(a) They are compressed in time, accelerated.
(b) They are prevented from following their traditional development.
(c) They are shunted aside as people spend time in individual pursuits.
(d) They are delayed in time.

8. 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.

9. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?
(a) Morals.
(b) People.
(c) Organizations.
(d) Places.

10. What shift does the future bring, in Toffler's account?
(a) From agriculture to high-technology.
(b) From industrialism to super-industrialism.
(c) From industrialism to democracy.
(d) From democracy to totalitarianism.

11. What does Toffler call the worker in the new organization?
(a) Fraternal man.
(b) Family man.
(c) Corporate man.
(d) Associative man.

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

13. What is NOT a characteristic of the bureaucracy?
(a) People occupy a place in the division of labor.
(b) People occupy a place in the vertical hierarchy.
(c) Organizational relationships are permanent.
(d) People are free to move from one role to another.

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

15. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?
(a) Power.
(b) Impermanence.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Security.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?

2. What term does Toffler use to describe the future society?

3. What is causing the revolution in modern society?

4. In what way is spring break in Ft. Lauderdale exemplary of super-industrial culture?

5. What makes future shock different than culture shock?

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