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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why Being Less Bad is No Good.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bill go to study?
(a) Jordan.
(b) New York.
(c) Israel.
(d) Harvard.

2. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Industrial Revolution?
(a) The effects of mass production on the environment are not considered.
(b) Factories consume an enormous amount of our natural resources.
(c) Automobiles are built individually by hand.
(d) Early industrialists do not consider the effects on human health.

3. What are the Romantic writers inspired by?
(a) Government.
(b) Nature.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Citizens.

4. 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.

5. How do products with toxic materials end up getting sold to consumers in the United States?
(a) Companies in the United States do not sell products with toxic chemicals.
(b) Companies purchase products abroad, import them, and resell them in the United States.
(c) Parts of products that contain toxic materials are not removed by the government.
(d) Components of products that contain toxic chemicals can be imported into the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill finally realize about design?

2. What do the authors claim is the key problem in recycling products?

3. In what way are chemicals not harmful to human health?

4. What is the prediction of Thomas Malthus in the 1800s?

5. What does Bill find inspiring about the environment that he grows up in?

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