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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Exxon Valdez oil spill result in an economic advantage to some companies?
(a) Chemical companies decrease sales in cleaning products.
(b) Local citizen groups raise money by helping with the clean up.
(c) Companies that are associated with the cleanup process increase profits.
(d) Companies that invest in Exxon Valdez increase profits.

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

3. What is the prediction of Thomas Malthus in the 1800s?
(a) The Industrial Revolution will be the solution to consumerism.
(b) The government will end the Industrial Revolution.
(c) Consumers will thrive off the Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Industrial Revolution will end in destruction.

4. Who writes Silent Spring?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Rachel Carson.
(d) Susan Sontag.

5. What health problems can be caused by high levels of contaminants in a normal household?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Asthma and allergies.
(c) Liver and brain cancer.
(d) Stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the goal of Bill and Michael's new company?

2. What words best describe the environment that Michael grows up in?

3. What are the Romantic writers inspired by?

4. When and where do Bill and Michael meet?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain and give an example of how the Industrial Revolution intended to make more and more money.

2. What do both Bill and Michael conclude about trying to improve products and industry?

3. Describe what causes "sick building syndrome" and name some of the associated health effects.

4. Explain how recycling is problematic and a poor solution to positive design.

5. Explain how you could be breathing benzene fumes from your treadmill even though benzene is forbidden for use in rubber products in the United States.

6. Describe the vision that both Bill and Michael have for the future of the environment.

7. Explain how recycling is really downcycling.

8. Explain why the authors say that eco-efficiency is not possible.

9. Describe why the authors warn against too much efficiency in design.

10. What do the authors mean by "crude product"? Also, give an example.

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