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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. Every human being now has contact with _________ every moment of his life - even from conception.
(a) Dangerous chemicals
(b) Pests
(c) Nature
(d) Insects

2. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."
(a) Know
(b) Change
(c) Do what we want
(d) Control others

3. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?
(a) Insects
(b) Smog
(c) Black birds
(d) White powder

4. Large-scale, single-crop farming eliminates the _______________ that provided built in control of pests.
(a) Possibility
(b) Regulation
(c) Biodiversity
(d) Chemicals

5. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?
(a) Lakes
(b) Birds
(c) Cats
(d) Pebbles

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.

2. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.

3. What is contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?

4. Much of the world's water is polluted by ________ from many sources.

5. What is not usable for drinking, irrigation, or industry?

(see the answer key)

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