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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. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?
(a) As a new class of citizens.
(b) As the salvation of the masses.
(c) As the apotheosis for individuality.
(d) As something that turns men into cogs.

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

3. What does Toffler say is the consequence of fast rates of change?
(a) Wider distribution of wealth.
(b) Sharper competitive edge.
(c) Shorter organizational lifespans.
(d) Greater pressure to adapt.

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

5. What shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?
(a) From blue-collar to white-collar.
(b) From white-collar to blue-collar.
(c) From first-shift to second-shift.
(d) From second-shift to third shift.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which groups move most often, in Toffler's account?

2. What is causing the revolution in modern society?

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

4. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?

5. What does Toffler say has become less important in commuter culture?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is future shock different than culture shock?

4. What did migration mean in Europe and in America?

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

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

7. What does Toffler foresee in the technology of fertility treatments?

8. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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

10. What are the three characteristics of bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

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