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

2. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?
(a) Clerks.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Family.
(d) Barbers.

3. What will lead to divorce in the society of the future?
(a) Partners reacting to change differently.
(b) New fertility technologies.
(c) The decline of religion.
(d) The development of digital pornography.

4. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?
(a) Shortens the man-thing relationship.
(b) Diminishes nationalism.
(c) Intensifies the territorial instincts.
(d) Deemphasizes the territorial instinct.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How will parenthood change in the future Toffler sees?

2. What does Toffler say people get from mobility?

3. What term does Toffler use to describe marriage in the future?

4. What medical developments does Toffler say will result in moral conundrums?

5. Where do people typically migrate, in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is future shock different than culture shock?

2. What is the modular man?

3. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

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

5. How does Toffler describe deeper relationships?

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

7. How will products and services be different in the new economy?

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

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

10. How does transience affect modern society?

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