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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which statement most accurately reflects the authors' ideas?
(a) Our products are best when consumers can afford them.
(b) Our industry is best when we accommodate worker equity.
(c) Our products and processes are best when they most resemble the natural world.
(d) Our industry is best when it uses more simple designs on a larger scale.

2. What do the authors suggest in terms of location and size of power plants?
(a) No power plants.
(b) Larger, more efficient plants.
(c) Power plants that burn natural resources.
(d) Smaller, more local plants.

3. How does the cherry tree contribute positively to its environment?
(a) It provides a good source of paper pulp.
(b) It provides fruit and cleans both the water and air.
(c) It provides shaded areas that reduce air conditioning costs.
(d) It provides industry with many of the chemicals necessary for paper production.

4. What do conventional plastic shoes emit every time you walk or run?
(a) Water.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Lead.

5. What happens to nutrients when agriculture becomes industrialized?
(a) Nutrients are never consumed.
(b) Nutrients are moved and do not remain local.
(c) Nutrients are efficiently recycled.
(d) Nutrients are replenished naturally in the soil.

6. What is true about the inks typically used for printing books?
(a) They are non-toxic and washable.
(b) They can easily be made from other recycled products.
(c) They are never truly permanent.
(d) They release toxic chemicals as they break down.

7. Which is a good alternative to printing a typical book?
(a) Make a smaller version of books that uses less materials.
(b) Make books from extremely durable materials so that they are never thrown away.
(c) Recycle more books.
(d) Create electronic books.

8. What is another reason to build using local materials?
(a) It increases profits for importers.
(b) It prevents invasive, non-native species from entering the area.
(c) It stops exportation of local goods.
(d) It encourages devolution.

9. How are most manufacturing processes different than the way ants live in the environment?
(a) Most manufacturing creates waste that is not useful in the environment.
(b) Most manufacturing replaces the resources it depletes.
(c) Most manufacturing produces biodegradable chemicals.
(d) Most manufacturing is concerned with productivity.

10. What do the authors design for Herman Miller?
(a) Suburban shopping mall.
(b) Athletic shoes.
(c) Downtown lofts.
(d) A furniture factory.

11. What can we do with materials that cannot be safely recycled?
(a) Use them for other products.
(b) Recycle them, even though they release toxic chemicals.
(c) Break them down into small pieces and dispose of them properly.
(d) Save them until we have the technology to recycle them safely.

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

13. Which of the following can pass into drinking water?
(a) Medications.
(b) Solid waste.
(c) Plastics.
(d) Pieces of glass.

14. What do the authors mean by "one size fits all"?
(a) To describe the result of recycling materials.
(b) To describe a decrease in diversity cause by modern industry.
(c) To describe the modern design for running shoes.
(d) To describe how third-world countries design houses.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What material can be used to create a well-designed roof?

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

4. How should homes meet heating, cooling, and power needs?

5. How did Henry Ford upcycle his shipping boxes?

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