1. What does the owner of Ciba-Geigy encourage Michael to do?
(a) Move to the U.S.
(b) Work for the Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) Find a real job.
(d) Get an education in manufacturing and work for Ciba-Geigy.

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

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

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

5. Why are books problematic to recycle?
(a) Because they are difficult to re-bind.
(b) Because the covers are made of different materials than the interior pages.
(c) Because the interior pages are impossible to remove from the cover.
(d) Because the ink is very easy to remove.