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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Respect Diversity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which product is a good example of something designed for a throwaway society?
(a) Gold jewelry.
(b) Microwaves.
(c) Recycled paper.
(d) Running shoes.

3. What is Bill's occupation?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Biologist.
(c) Chemist.
(d) Architect.

4. Which statement below would be a good title for this section of the book?
(a) How to make successful designs for the Earth and its people.
(b) How to employ happy workers.
(c) How to make more efficient energy.
(d) How to use the environment for the benefit of business.

5. When and where do Bill and Michael meet?
(a) In 1990 at an academic convention in San Diego.
(b) In 2004 at the Democratic convention.
(c) In 1992 at an Earth Summit meeting.
(d) In 1996 on an airplane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is critically important to agriculture in Egypt?

2. What is the authors' point for why import laws need to be changed?

3. Why can't many materials be recycled?

4. The Industrial Revolution functions on the idea of brute force. What is meant by this phrase as used by the authors?

5. The authors envision all of the following about a building modeled after the cherry tree, except:

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