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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 rise of the middle class.
(b) The shift from industrialism to super-industrialism.
(c) The shift from producing to consuming.
(d) The shift from exporting to importing.

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

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

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

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

6. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?
(a) They repeat the experiences of their ancestors.
(b) They measure their progress against the seasons.
(c) They develop "durational expectancies."
(d) They keep solar calendars.

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

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

9. What does Toffler say Shakespeare would experience today?
(a) He would not be surprised by anything.
(b) He would understand only half of our words.
(c) He would not recognize nature in our language.
(d) He would be appalled by how we treat peasants.

10. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Transience.

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

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

13. What makes future shock different than culture shock?
(a) Culture shock only lasts for a generation before assimilation takes place.
(b) Future shock consists of familiar cues being replaced by unfamiliar cues.
(c) Future shock is a cultural condition.
(d) Culture shock only happens in modern cultures.

14. What does Toffler say people get from mobility?
(a) Debt.
(b) Status.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Disorientation.

15. 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 become super territorial over their possessions.
(c) People are happier when they can find the right place.
(d) People fear attachment to any one place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the economics of transience?

2. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it worthwhile for beach communities?

3. What part of spring break does Toffler say makes it valuable for students?

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

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

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