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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is someone supposed to do once they choose their identity?
(a) Make new friends.
(b) Invent new identities.
(c) Conform to the subgroup.
(d) Convert others to that same identity.

2. How does Toffler describe the "modular man's" relationships?
(a) They are replicable from one place to another.
(b) They are limited to specific roles.
(c) They are optimized for efficiency.
(d) They are interchangeable based on roles.

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

4. How does Toffler characterize society's relation with conduct, manners, and language?
(a) As an ad-hocracy.
(b) As a new fascism.
(c) As a planned obsolescence.
(d) As a cracked consensus.

5. How long does Toffler say it now takes for public value systems to change?
(a) Every few hundred years.
(b) Every few years.
(c) Every few generations.
(d) Within a lifetime.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of loyalty are the new kinds of organizations based on?

3. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?

4. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?

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

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