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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Putting Eco-Effectiveness into Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Henry Ford upcycle his shipping boxes?
(a) He threw them out and made new ones.
(b) He reused them as floorboards on model-A trucks.
(c) He used them to build new homes.
(d) He donated them to be used as fruit crates.

3. What does Paul Erlich write about?
(a) The positive influence of industry on consumers.
(b) The possibility of government control over industry.
(c) The global consequences of recycling.
(d) The negative consequences of overpopulation and rampant production.

4. What are the Romantic writers inspired by?
(a) Citizens.
(b) Nature.
(c) Government.
(d) Alchemy.

5. What words best describe the environment that Michael grows up in?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Communist.
(d) Violent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threatens the soil the most?

2. Why does Michael tether himself to the smoke stacks at Ciba-Geigy?

3. Approximately how many chemicals have been studied for their health effects?

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

5. How is toxicity removed around the new Ford factory?

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