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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "Realms of the Soil".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This kind of vegetable absorbs huge levels of poisons, which would have harmed humans if they had eaten the produce.
(a) Peppers
(b) Carrot
(c) Tomato
(d) Beans

2. In the modern world, life does not have the luxury of ________.
(a) Research
(b) Control
(c) Money
(d) Time

3. How long can chemicals remain in the soil to which they are applied?
(a) 12 years
(b) A few days
(c) 1 month
(d) 1 year

4. Only _________ have gained the ability to reserve the roles and actually change the environment they live in.
(a) Plants
(b) Animals
(c) Insects
(d) Human beings

5. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.
(a) Powdered formula
(b) Mother's milk
(c) The placenta
(d) Water

Short Answer Questions

1. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.

2. What is the name of the naturally occurring mineral that is toxic to humans and most creatures but is still used as a pesticide?

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

4. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.

5. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."

(see the answer key)

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