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

2. What is NOT a characteristic of the bureaucracy?
(a) People occupy a place in the division of labor.
(b) Organizational relationships are permanent.
(c) People are free to move from one role to another.
(d) People occupy a place in the vertical hierarchy.

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

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

5. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?
(a) Foreign travelers.
(b) Developing nations.
(c) All modern people.
(d) Urban populations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?

2. What does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?

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

4. What will people want in the new economy Toffler imagines?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does technology and specialization affect occupations?

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

3. How does transience affect modern society?

4. What is the effect of the acceleration of information?

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

6. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

7. How does future shock manifest?

8. What does Toffler say is the danger of high technology?

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

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

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