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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. What is Silent Spring to educate the public about specifically?
(a) The dangers of DDT in the environment.
(b) The Industrial Revolution and its destruction of a romantic society.
(c) The harmony between industry and society.
(d) The difficulties in recycling organic materials.

2. Which words best describes a material that has been downcycled?
(a) Organic and beneficial.
(b) Intelligent and elegant.
(c) Inferior and inefficient.
(d) Quality and efficient.

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

4. What does Michael chose for a professional career?
(a) Social work.
(b) Literature.
(c) Horticulture.
(d) Chemistry.

5. Which word describes how industry views efficiency?
(a) Profits.
(b) Equity.
(c) Losses.
(d) Cumbersome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the authors' point for why import laws need to be changed?

2. What is Bill's occupation?

3. Why are books problematic to recycle?

4. What is one problem with recycled paper?

5. What is Bill's final solution to creating "less bad" design?

Short Essay Questions

1. List three examples of how a focus on efficiency in design can have negative consequences.

2. Describe how Michael ends up working for the German Environmental Protection Agency.

3. Describe the vision that both Bill and Michael have for the future of the environment.

4. Describe one of Bill and Michael's ideas for completely positive design.

5. Explain why the authors say that eco-efficiency is not possible.

6. Describe why books are traditionally difficult to recycle and how this book itself is a more positive design.

7. What do both Bill and Michael conclude about trying to improve products and industry?

8. Explain what the authors mean by "brute force."

9. 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.

10. What challenges does Michael face while working for the Environmental Protection Agency?

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