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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 do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?
(a) Interactions with many aspects of a person's personality.
(b) Initiation rituals.
(c) Shared spiritual experience.
(d) Genetic similarity.

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

3. What does Toffler predict will come out of genetics?
(a) Cloning.
(b) Wars over intellectual property.
(c) Medical gene therapies.
(d) Cut-throat pharmaceutical companies.

4. What does Toffler say has been a consequence of mobility in Europe?
(a) Economic expansion.
(b) Spiritual stagnation.
(c) Political instability.
(d) Worker shortages.

5. What symptom does Toffler describe as an aspect of future shock?
(a) Ennui.
(b) Disorientation.
(c) Weltschmerz.
(d) Despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is causing the revolution in modern society?

2. What line will industries blur in the future, according to Toffler?

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

4. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

5. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?

Short Essay Questions

1. What developments does Toffler foresee in agriculture and food production?

2. How does Toffler describe deeper relationships?

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

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

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

6. How does transience affect modern society?

7. How does technology and specialization affect occupations?

8. How does Toffler say commuting has affected the future society?

9. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

10. How does future shock manifest?

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