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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Waste Equals Food.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the goal of Germany's Green Party?
(a) To change the outcome of bipartisan elections.
(b) To make decisions and policies that are environmentally friendly.
(c) To create a government that is pointed towards industry.
(d) To make Germany a world super power.

2. Why can't many materials be recycled?
(a) Because consumers are not committed to recycling.
(b) Because the technology doesn´t exist.
(c) Because they are hybrids of too many other materials.
(d) Because they are materials that are too solid to be melted down.

3. The authors present the cherry tree as a good model of what?
(a) Crude product design.
(b) Cradle to grave design.
(c) Cradle to cradle design.
(d) Eco-efficiency.

4. Which of the following is an example of people trying to live with nature as it is today?
(a) The Yakima Indians cooperate with the state of Washington by assuring the government that they will keep their own children safe from toxins in a dump site.
(b) Industrial factories designed with efficiency and production in mind.
(c) Shoe manufacturers import materials that contain toxic chemicals.
(d) Consumers decrease spending on recyclable products.

5. Which is an example of a product that is difficult to recycle?
(a) Lunch bags.
(b) Glass baby food jars.
(c) Plastic bottles.
(d) Carpet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why aren't cherry trees wasteful?

2. What is problematic about the attitude of design and production during the Industrial Revolution?

3. What is critically important to agriculture in Egypt?

4. In general, the authors believe that a roof should:

5. What is inspiring about cherry trees to the authors?

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