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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen to the current economic model in the future Toffler imagines?
(a) It will cause tension and conflict with the new model.
(b) It will not be applicable.
(c) It will cause turmoil as it dies out in the future.
(d) It will adapt to the new environment.

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

3. What is causing the revolution in modern society?
(a) High finance.
(b) Urbanization.
(c) Technology.
(d) Environmental degradation.

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

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

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

7. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?
(a) Diminishes nationalism.
(b) Shortens the man-thing relationship.
(c) Deemphasizes the territorial instinct.
(d) Intensifies the territorial instincts.

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

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

10. What kind of lifestyle does Toffler say is characterized by frequent moves?
(a) Corporate lifestyle.
(b) Illegal immigrant lifestyle.
(c) Manual laborer lifestyle.
(d) Middle-class lifestyle.

11. 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.

12. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?
(a) Fewer traditions makes for less loyal customers.
(b) Shorter product lives decrease the cost of materials.
(c) Longer product lives build customer loyalty.
(d) Shorter product lives increase sales.

13. What is happening to the bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?
(a) It is creating unhappiness.
(b) It is choking off progress.
(c) It is breaking down.
(d) It is institutionalizing inefficiency.

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

15. What will be the new influence on the economy of the future?
(a) New methods of production.
(b) New human needs.
(c) New financial mechanisms.
(d) New forms of payment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?

3. What will the future entail in Toffler's account?

4. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?

5. What does Toffler call the new management class?

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