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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?
(a) As a new class of citizens.
(b) As the apotheosis for individuality.
(c) As something that turns men into cogs.
(d) As the salvation of the masses.

2. What does Toffler say has become less important in commuter culture?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Distance and place.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Marriage.

3. 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 affection for their environment.
(c) They don't all shop in the same place.
(d) They don't have the same sense of loyalty to the place.

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

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

6. What is the consequence of people relocating their homes more often in super-industrial culture?
(a) People stimulate the economy every time they move.
(b) People are happier when they can find the right place.
(c) People become super territorial over their possessions.
(d) People fear attachment to any one place.

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

8. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?
(a) Bank of America.
(b) Goldman Sachs.
(c) Club med.
(d) Exxon.

9. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?
(a) Professional relationships.
(b) Family relationships.
(c) Committed relationships.
(d) Service relationships.

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

11. What is the consequence of high mobility, according to Toffler?
(a) Class consolidation in the suburbs.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Political involvement.
(d) Non-involvement in the community.

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

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

14. What does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?
(a) Underwater cities.
(b) Undersea warfare.
(c) Environmental degradation.
(d) Tsunamis.

15. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?
(a) More disposable income.
(b) More mobility.
(c) More educational options.
(d) More leisure time.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Toffler describe future shock?

3. What will people want in the new economy Toffler imagines?

4. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?

5. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?

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