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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 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 adapt to the new environment.
(d) It will cause turmoil as it dies out in the future.

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

3. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of how much work things require.
(b) People's sense of how long things take.
(c) People's sense of their relations.
(d) People's sense of what things cost.

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

5. What will companies manufacture in Toffler's future?
(a) Transportation networks.
(b) Computer devices.
(c) Social services.
(d) Experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler predict men will be able to do?

2. What shift does the future bring, in Toffler's account?

3. What contributes to the high rate of change in organizations?

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

5. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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

3. What is the modular man?

4. How has home-relocation affected the future society?

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

6. How does technology and specialization affect occupations?

7. What is the role of the organization in the future society?

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

9. How is future shock different than culture shock?

10. What is a durational expectancy, and how has modern society affected durational expectancies?

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