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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that affects a person who is undergoing change?
(a) Depression.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Stress.
(d) Disorientation.

2. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) They have shorter lifespans.
(b) They tend to lead to promotion.
(c) They make people specialists.
(d) They tend to trap people in one field.

3. What did Holmes and Rahe find in their study of the Navy?
(a) A correlation between change and illness.
(b) A correlation between loneliness and aggression.
(c) A correlation between change and feelings of powerlessness.
(d) A correlation between change and depression.

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

5. With whom do modern people have to identify?
(a) Families.
(b) Employers.
(c) Subgroups.
(d) Religious groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?

2. What does Toffler say is the consequence of fast rates of change?

3. How does Toffler describe a job in a bureaucracy?

4. Who are a man's colleagues in the new kind of organization?

5. What effect does Toffler say familiar objects have on people?

(see the answer key)

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