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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the economics of transience?
(a) Replacing things is cheaper than repairing them.
(b) Investing in the market pays better dividends than saving.
(c) Educating children increases a family's future income.
(d) Building temporary housing instead of long-term buildings.

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

5. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it valuable for students?
(a) The beach is an escape.
(b) The beach is a different experience.
(c) The beach is a place to study.
(d) The beach is a place to apply their learning.

6. What is the reason for the shortening of relationships?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Urbanization.
(c) Finance.
(d) Mechanization.

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

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

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

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

11. How does Toffler describe the "modular man's" relationships?
(a) They are interchangeable based on roles.
(b) They are optimized for efficiency.
(c) They are replicable from one place to another.
(d) They are limited to specific roles.

12. How will parenthood change in the future Toffler sees?
(a) Babies will be property of the state.
(b) It will be legal not biological.
(c) Parents will have to be certified.
(d) Children will be monitored more closely at schools.

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

14. 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 spending.
(d) Student volunteers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are the people of the future in Toffler's definition?

3. What industries does Toffler say will grow in the economy of the future?

4. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?

5. What will happen to the current economic model in the future Toffler imagines?

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