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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. By what percent has Egypt´s food crops decreased?
(a) 1%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 50%.
2. What structural material did McDonough suggest for the Bedouin houses?
(a) Concrete structures.
(b) Nylon tents.
(c) Adobe structures.
(d) Wood and glass structures.
3. How did Henry Ford upcycle his shipping boxes?
(a) He used them to build new homes.
(b) He donated them to be used as fruit crates.
(c) He threw them out and made new ones.
(d) He reused them as floorboards on model-A trucks.
4. Which statement below would be a good title for this section of the book?
(a) How to employ happy workers.
(b) How to make more efficient energy.
(c) How to use the environment for the benefit of business.
(d) How to make successful designs for the Earth and its people.
5. What do most homes use for as a source of power?
(a) Biofuels.
(b) Fossil fuels.
(c) Wind.
(d) Geothermal energy.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the authors' opinion, what should factories do?
2. What do the authors mean by a throwaway society?
3. What do conventional plastic shoes emit every time you walk or run?
4. How should homes meet heating, cooling, and power needs?
5. Which word best describes the cherry tree model for industrial design?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why contamination is so permanent on the planet.
2. Give two examples of local cooling power.
3. Describe the furniture factory that the authors design for Herman Miller.
4. Describe what the authors suggest we do with products that produce toxic chemicals when they are recycled.
5. How does the cherry tree model for industrial design differ from the current model of industrial design?
6. Explain how sewage systems can be improved.
7. Explain why the authors find the cherry tree an inspiration for new industrial designs.
8. What is the problem with current product packaging?
9. How are the materials used to make the book Cradle to Cradle different than a typical bookstore book?
10. Explain and give an example of what the authors mean by products that are "monstrous hybrids".
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