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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Ecotopian government do to businesses that fail to comply with pollution laws?
(a) Buy or allow them to fail.
(b) Merge them.
(c) Expand them.
(d) Leave them be.

2. Who does Weston get to talk to after the game?
(a) The dribbler and the defense.
(b) The injured man and an elderly man.
(c) The referee and point guard.
(d) The punter and the shooter.

3. In the Ecotopian education system, how do children progress?
(a) Through levels.
(b) Through tribal competition.
(c) Through luck.
(d) Through grades.

4. What city does Weston explore at the beginning of the book?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Portland.
(c) Kingston.
(d) San Francisco.

5. What do Ecotopians think of travel for business?
(a) Important.
(b) Pleasurable.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Dependent upon the area.

6. What does Weston notice about the Ecotopian population as compared to the American population?
(a) More fit.
(b) Less healthy.
(c) Shorter lifespan.
(d) Smaller.

7. What movement in Ecotopia wants to abandon plastics completely?
(a) Metal.
(b) Coal.
(c) Petroleum.
(d) Purist.

8. Who are a minority in Ecotopia?
(a) Mongolians.
(b) Filipinos.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Women.

9. What are some skills that the children learn in school in Ecotopia?
(a) Accounting and books.
(b) Casting and mining.
(c) Hunting and fishing.
(d) Drawing and painting.

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

11. What does Weston notice happens during the game?
(a) The referee calls foul.
(b) The winning team draws graffiti.
(c) A man is seriously injured.
(d) The losing team sulks.

12. What does the train that Weston takes run on?
(a) Vegetable oil.
(b) Magnetic rails.
(c) Oil fumes.
(d) Petroleum.

13. What is used to haul the trees to the lumber mills?
(a) Big diesel trucks.
(b) Big electric tractors.
(c) Bulldozers.
(d) Steam engines.

14. What are Ecotopian plastics produced with?
(a) Broken down plastics.
(b) Petroleum sources.
(c) Previous coal residue.
(d) Living biological sources.

15. What kind of a schedule do the children have at school in Ecotopia?
(a) Rudimentary.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Rigid.
(d) Flexible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What system does the person that Weston meets tell him about?

2. What does Weston think of the bed he has to sleep on at the beginning of the book?

3. What connects the skyscrapers that Weston sees in the city he explores?

4. How big is the minicity's population?

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

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