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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Question of Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many chemicals have been studied for their health effects?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 200.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 1,000.

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

3. What statement best describes how the authors feel about consumerism?
(a) It is not completely the consumer's fault for the mass production of environmentally dangerous products.
(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) We can blame uneducated consumers for the state of the environment.

4. Who should be responsible for creating products that support the Earth?
(a) Designers and manufacturers.
(b) Citizens.
(c) Government.
(d) NASA.

5. Why would designers create products that wear out in a certain amount of time?
(a) So that factories never had to change products.
(b) So that they did not have to close factories.
(c) So that consumers would have to continue to purchase new products.
(d) So that landfills did not get too full.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bill go to study?

2. What is an alternative solution to using International Style for home design?

3. What is the authors' point in opening the introduction by discussing common household products?

4. What do the authors claim is flawed about architecture made with the International Style?

5. Which words best describe the focus of production in factories during the Industrial Revolution?

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