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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?
(a) New fertility technologies.
(b) Partners reacting to change differently.
(c) The development of digital pornography.
(d) The decline of religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler propose as a standard for relationships?

2. What does Toffler say is the real danger we face in the future?

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

4. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?

5. What does Toffler say is the consequence of fast rates of change?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Toffler foresee in terms of exploring the ocean?

2. What is the effect of change within organizations on future society?

3. What will change mean for the people of the future, in Toffler's account?

4. How will super-industrialism change the economics of society?

5. How does Toffler describe the pace of modern life and its effect on society?

6. What is the effect of the economics of transience?

7. How will marriage be affected by the super-industrial culture?

8. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

9. Describe the importance of the automobile in the super-industrial society.

10. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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