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

2. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of what things cost.
(b) People's sense of their relations.
(c) People's sense of how long things take.
(d) People's sense of how much work things require.

3. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?
(a) They are shunted aside as people spend time in individual pursuits.
(b) They are compressed in time, accelerated.
(c) They are delayed in time.
(d) They are prevented from following their traditional development.

4. What animals have been used in underwater research?
(a) Dolphins.
(b) Cod.
(c) Shrimp.
(d) Squid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toffler describe future shock?

2. What feeling results from the development of Toffler's future culture?

3. What does the amount of change in an organization contribute to, according to Toffler?

4. What techniques had Japan pioneered at the time of Toffler's writing?

5. What will the future entail in Toffler's account?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How will super-industrialism change the economics of society?

3. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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

5. What does Toffler say is the danger of high technology?

6. How has home-relocation affected the future society?

7. What will change mean for the people of the future, in Toffler's account?

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

9. What is the modular man?

10. Describe the importance of the automobile in the super-industrial society.

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