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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impresses Weston about the average Ecotopian child?
(a) Can identify different types of plants and animals.
(b) Can explain quantum physics.
(c) Can cook food for thirty people.
(d) Can race up a mountain in minutes.

2. Who is Weston's employer?
(a) Wells Fargo.
(b) Citibank.
(c) Times-Post.
(d) Art Unlimited.

3. What do all the plastics in Ecotopia do?
(a) Recycle or degrade.
(b) Melt or harden.
(c) Burn or cinder.
(d) Freeze or solidify.

4. Who or what is the Ecotopian president?
(a) A woman.
(b) An invalid.
(c) An Independent.
(d) An alien.

5. What is the name of the presiding political party in Ecotopia?
(a) Green.
(b) Minimalist.
(c) Proud.
(d) Survivalist.

6. What system does the person that Weston meets tell him about?
(a) Fertilizer creation.
(b) Crop rotation.
(c) Sewage recycling.
(d) Plumbing.

7. How big is the minicity's population?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 100,000.

8. On the hiking trips, what do the children learn about?
(a) Art, mathematics, and history.
(b) Plants, animals, and the environment.
(c) Literature, psychology, and sociology.
(d) Astronomy, physics, and science.

9. Where did Ecotopia get a lot of its military weaponry from?
(a) Russia and Cuba.
(b) Spain and Portugal.
(c) France and Czechoslovakia.
(d) Canada and the United States.

10. Who do the Ecotopians avoid after the Pacific event?
(a) Jules.
(b) Marissa.
(c) Inga.
(d) Weston.

11. What is the name of the new minicity that Weston visits?
(a) Miguel.
(b) Aura.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Alviso.

12. What makes people stay glued to their TV sets in Ecotopia?
(a) Soccer game.
(b) War games.
(c) An incident.
(d) Cooking show.

13. What do most women use to control population growth in Ecotopia?
(a) Abstinence.
(b) Laxatives.
(c) Contraceptives.
(d) Nothing.

14. What does Weston think of the room he gets to sleep in at the beginning of the book?
(a) Nice, but old-fashioned.
(b) Dirty and worn out.
(c) Big and comfortable.
(d) Modern and sleek.

15. What does Weston notice about the streams near the lumber camps?
(a) They are muddy.
(b) They are not muddy.
(c) They are low.
(d) They are swelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ecotopians think of travel for business?

2. What does Weston notice that the streets of the minicity are full of?

3. What does Weston notice about the water in the bay of the minicity?

4. What does Weston want to learn about from the person he meets?

5. What uses public opinion to control the policies and behaviors of Ecotopian companies?

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