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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why Being Less Bad is No Good.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are car parts difficult to recycle?
(a) The body parts have many toxic chemicals that are dangerous in the recycling process.
(b) It is almost impossible to disassemble the body parts.
(c) It is difficult to separate paint from car body parts, so it is impossible to recover the steel.
(d) It is very difficult to melt down steel.

2. What is eco-efficiency?
(a) Giving industry control.
(b) Getting more from less.
(c) Expanding ecology and business.
(d) Taking more from the environment.

3. What statement best describes how the authors feel about consumerism?
(a) It is the fault of an education system that does not teach good consumerism.
(b) It is not completely the consumer's fault for the mass production of environmentally dangerous products.
(c) We can blame our children for our own consumerism.
(d) We can blame uneducated consumers for the state of the environment.

4. Why does Michael tether himself to the smoke stacks at Ciba-Geigy?
(a) To compete his experiment on the effects of toxic waste on the human body.
(b) To protest the fur industry and the use of chemicals on animals.
(c) To blame consumers for the large amount of toxins in the environment.
(d) To bring attention to a chemical spill caused by the company, Ciba-Geigy.

5. Which words best describe the focus of production in factories during the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Slow and careful.
(b) Quick and cheap.
(c) Expensive and technical.
(d) Laborious and costly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difficulty with recycling heavily inked pages?

2. What are the Romantic writers inspired by?

3. Which statement is the best explanation for why sports shoes are produced outside the U.S.?

4. Why are pesticides and herbicides commonly used on crops?

5. What health problems can be caused by high levels of contaminants in a normal household?

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