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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which words best describe the focus of production in factories during the Industrial Revolution?
2. What word best describes the authors' goal in design?
3. When can PVC, a commonly used plastic in children's playground equipment, be toxic?
4. What happens when garbage is incinerated?
5. What word do the authors use as a realistic alternative to the word "recycling"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What challenges does Michael face while working for the Environmental Protection Agency?
2. Explain what the authors mean by "brute force."
3. What do both Bill and Michael conclude about trying to improve products and industry?
4. Describe why books are traditionally difficult to recycle and how this book itself is a more 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 negative consequences the Industrial Revolution has on the environment and human health.
7. Explain one example of how recycling is really downcycling of materials.
8. Describe how early industrialists considered nature and the environment.
9. Describe the idea of eco-efficiency and how it proposes to solve the industry, consumer, and environment problems.
10. What do the authors suggest for a solution to more efficient home designs, as opposed to the International Style of architecture?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay to examine the problems with the current packaging used on products. Explain how packaging can be wasteful, and describe the effects of packaging on the environment. Provide some solutions to improve the current packaging designs or systems.
Essay Topic 2
The authors describe five steps to putting eco-effectiveness into practice. Write summary of how to accomplish these five steps if you are a product designer.
Essay Topic 3
Do you agree or disagree with the authors' opinion on basing designs on nature and tailoring designs to specific locations? Why or why not? Do you think that industry, business, consumers, workers, and the environment will all benefit equally from designs based on nature? Explain your reasoning.
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