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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 phrase do the authors use to describe the attitude during the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Cradle to cradle.
(b) Cradle to grave.
(c) Grave to grave.
(d) Grave to cradle.

2. What are some unique properties of ink used in printing this book?
(a) The ink is made with new color technology.
(b) The ink itself is recyclable.
(c) The ink is made in the U.S.
(d) The ink itself is nontoxic and easy to wash off with nontoxic chemicals.

3. Which is an example of a material that is downcycled?
(a) The book itself.
(b) Dead organic matter.
(c) Gold jewelry.
(d) Aluminum cans.

4. What statement best describes how the authors feel about consumerism?
(a) It is the fault of an education system that does not teach good consumerism.
(b) We can blame uneducated consumers for the state of the environment.
(c) It is not completely the consumer's fault for the mass production of environmentally dangerous products.
(d) We can blame our children for our own consumerism.

5. What is the problem with recycling as we know it?
(a) Recycling means losing more money to better technology.
(b) Recycling means using inferior products.
(c) Recycling means using the materials in a way they were not intended.
(d) Recycling means eating old food.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way are chemicals not harmful to human health?

2. Why is the Titanic a good metaphor for the industrial age?

3. How do products with toxic materials end up getting sold to consumers in the United States?

4. Which word describes how industry views efficiency?

5. The Industrial Revolution functions on the idea of brute force. What is meant by this phrase as used by the authors?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the focus and attitude of the Industrial Revolution.

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

3. Describe the arguments against the Industrial Revolution throughout its history.

4. What do the authors suggest for a solution to more efficient home designs, as opposed to the International Style of architecture?

5. Explain one example of how recycling is really downcycling of materials.

6. What do the authors mean by "crude product"? Also, give an example.

7. 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.

8. Name two common household objects and their hidden health effects because of the chemicals they contain.

9. Describe how early industrialists considered nature and the environment.

10. Explain how recycling is problematic and a poor solution to positive design.

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