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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can leather be safely tanned?
(a) With plastic resins.
(b) With UV light tanners.
(c) With wind-dry technology.
(d) With vegetable tanners.

2. Approximately how many chemicals are in use by industry today?
(a) 500.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 2,000.

3. 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 blame consumers for the large amount of toxins in the environment.
(d) To compete his experiment on the effects of toxic waste on the human body.

4. Which word best describes how ants are viewed by the authors?
(a) Successful.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Wasteful.
(d) Enriching.

5. Which of the following is an example of how the natural world replenishes itself?
(a) Monoculture crops.
(b) Caribou migrations.
(c) Cherry blossoms falling from the tree.
(d) Catching fish with nets.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what percent has Egypt´s food crops decreased?

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

3. Which word best describes the cherry tree model for industrial design?

4. Why are books problematic to recycle?

5. What is a positive change that occurs during the Industrial Revolution?

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