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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "One in Every Four".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All foods, according to Carson, contain some level of such poisonous chemicals as __________.
(a) Boron
(b) DDT
(c) Bitter orange
(d) Nicotine

2. Spraying for the ________ began in the 1950s and resulted in the death of robins.
(a) French beetles
(b) Gypsy moth
(c) Dutch Elm Disease
(d) Fire ants

3. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.
(a) Exhaust fumes
(b) Air
(c) Packaged foods
(d) Food chain

4. What is the name of the chemical that changes form once it enters the environment, becoming another more deadly chemical?
(a) HCl
(b) DDT
(c) Bromide
(d) Heptachlor

5. ______________ is the basic process of life creation for everything from amoebae to humans.
(a) Cell mutation
(b) Cell ligation
(c) Cell division
(d) Cell respiration

Short Answer Questions

1. The ____________ systems of all creatures are adversely affected by DDT and other chemicals, so that this drastic disruption of the unversal currency of life affects the capacity of all living things.

2. What is the most important earth-dwelling creature, according to Carson?

3. The limits the government has established regarding chemical levels in foods are __________.

4. In ___________ in the 1950s, the chemical that appeared in the water had actually been created spontaneously by the interaction of other chemicals present.

5. Without the Earth's ________, there could be no plants.

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