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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are the people of the future in Toffler's definition?
(a) The black sheep of society.
(b) The people who resist the rat-race.
(c) The traditionalists.
(d) The fast-paced people.

3. What does change require from a person's physiology?
(a) Meditation techniques.
(b) Numbing techniques.
(c) Time for healing.
(d) Expenditure of energy.

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

5. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?
(a) A reciprocal relationship with an organization that participates in the worker's development.
(b) An unchanging role with a fixed set of expectations.
(c) A flexible role within a developing organization.
(d) A series of organizational problems to solve.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom do modern people have to identify?

2. What does Toffler say is the consequence of too much change?

3. What does the accelerative thrust of society require, in Toffler's account?

4. What is the method people use to cope with future shock?

5. What does Toffler say is distorted in over-stimulated people?

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