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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. Which product is an example of a monstrous hybrid, as the authors describe it?
(a) Wood tables and chairs.
(b) Plastic Tupperware.
(c) Running shoes.
(d) Hardcover books.

2. What happens to agriculture in the Americas?
(a) It becomes a system modeled after early nomads.
(b) It creates a system to replenish the soil.
(c) It creates new ways to nurture crops.
(d) It becomes an unsustainable design.

3. Why aren't cherry trees wasteful?
(a) All of the leaves are eaten by herbivores every autumn.
(b) They create many blossoms that do not produce fruit.
(c) All of their blossoms are decomposed when they are spent and fall to the ground.
(d) They do not require many resources to live.

4. What can we do with materials that cannot be safely recycled?
(a) Use them for other products.
(b) Save them until we have the technology to recycle them safely.
(c) Recycle them, even though they release toxic chemicals.
(d) Break them down into small pieces and dispose of them properly.

5. What do the authors suggest as an example of a good sewage treatment plan?
(a) Saving sewage in recyclable containers until we have the technology to process it.
(b) Adding chemicals to sewage so that it can become save drinking water.
(c) Storing winter sewage until it can be processed in the summer sun in a specially constructed wetland.
(d) Removing sewage from the location to an area with fewer inhabitants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the authors claim about the preferences of consumers?

2. How are most manufacturing processes different than the way ants live in the environment?

3. What do the authors suggest we do about waste from sewage plants?

4. How can industry model nature?

5. Which of the following is a true statement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe some good examples of useful packaging.

2. How does the cherry tree model for industrial design differ from the current model of industrial design?

3. What is the problem with current product packaging?

4. Explain how ants are a model for positive design that contributes to the environment.

5. Describe what the authors suggest we do with products that produce toxic chemicals when they are recycled.

6. Describe how our water supply is affected by the "throwaway" mentality.

7. Explain what the authors mean by a "throwaway society."

8. Describe the furniture factory that the authors design for Herman Miller.

9. Describe how the design of detergents and soaps can be improved for consumer use, the environment, and business.

10. Give two examples of local cooling power.

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