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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. Which of the following is a true statement?
(a) Cleaning products make good fertilizers.
(b) Beauty products help in seed germination.
(c) Soap never needs to contain water,
(d) Detergents also help keep water clean in natural systems.

2. How do the Chinese traditionally maintain nutrients to their rice patties?
(a) By damming rivers to dry their fields every winter.
(b) By recycling plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
(c) By adding their household wastes to the fields.
(d) By fertilizing fields every spring.

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

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

5. How can industry model nature?
(a) By creating more simplistic designs based on new technology.
(b) By preserving old technologies.
(c) By pushing for new designs that encourage efficiency.
(d) By working with the conditions of place and respecting diversity in materials and applications.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do conventional plastic shoes emit every time you walk or run?

2. The authors envision all of the following about a building modeled after the cherry tree, except:

3. How can leather be safely tanned?

4. Which product is a good example of something designed for a throwaway society?

5. Which of the following is an example of people trying to live with nature as it is today?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the design of detergents and soaps can be improved for consumer use, the environment, and business.

2. Describe some good examples of useful packaging.

3. Give two examples of local cooling power.

4. Describe what the authors suggest we do with products that produce toxic chemicals when they are recycled.

5. What do the authors suggest we do so that our products resemble the diversity present in the natural world?

6. Describe how Egyptian civilization traditionally uses nutrient flows and explain how this has changed in recent times.

7. Which is more cost effective, large scale power or small scale power? Explain.

8. Explain the idea of "devolution."

9. What are some advantages of designing homes with local materials?

10. How are the materials used to make the book Cradle to Cradle different than a typical bookstore book?

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