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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. What happens to the people in the beginning description which puzzles doctors?
(a) They become ill
(b) They have green spots on their faces
(c) They begin to hurt each other
(d) They disappear

2. What is contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?
(a) Water
(b) Hay in the barn
(c) Farmers
(d) Chicken feed

3. What is not produced as a result of not having the pollination process continue?
(a) Fruit
(b) Leaves
(c) Air
(d) Stones

4. The town Carson describes is one where townsfolk and farmers and wildlife all live in _____________.
(a) The same place
(b) Harmony
(c) Conflict
(d) Misery

5. Plants and animals specifically ________ to live in whatever their environments are.
(a) Moved
(b) Used control
(c) Killed
(d) Adapted

Short Answer Questions

1. The Earth itself is ________ only as long as the creatures within it are.

2. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?

3. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.

4. What is plentiful in the streams, providing good fishing spots since early settler times?

5. Who has poisoned the entire environment, according to Carson as she will prove in this book?

(see the answer key)

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