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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 line will industries blur in the future, according to Toffler?
(a) Between expenses and deductions.
(b) Between revenue and profit.
(c) Between reality and illusion.
(d) Between public and private.

2. What does Toffler call the new management class?
(a) Totalitarianism.
(b) Bureaucracy.
(c) Technocracy.
(d) Ad-Hocracy.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?

2. What symptom does Toffler describe as an aspect of future shock?

3. Where does culture shock take place, in Toffler's account?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

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 did migration mean in Europe and in America?

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

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

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

9. How does Toffler describe deeper relationships?

10. What is the modular man?

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