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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. What is problematic about the attitude of design and production during the Industrial Revolution?
(a) All material is eventually wasted.
(b) Materials are recyclable.
(c) Production is too expensive to make good money.
(d) Landfills are too full to be used.

2. Which products are the best examples of the brute force mentality?
(a) Children's toys.
(b) Cookware.
(c) Pet foods.
(d) Petrochemicals and coal.

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

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

5. What does Bill find inspiring about the environment that he grows up in?
(a) He eats many recyclable foods.
(b) Everywhere there are many beautiful and well-designed items.
(c) He learns from many famous mathematicians.
(d) The environment is dirty and polluted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Titanic a good metaphor for the industrial age?

2. When and where do Bill and Michael meet?

3. Approximately how many chemicals have been studied for their health effects?

4. When can PVC, a commonly used plastic in children's playground equipment, be toxic?

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

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