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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 "Nature Fights Back".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What posed no threat, only a minor annoyance, yet was still the target of a massive spraying campaign?
(a) Mosquito
(b) Fire ant
(c) Ladybug
(d) Gypsy moth

2. Wildlife biologists and forestry experts __________ the mass killings of so much life.
(a) Assist in
(b) Are guilty of
(c) Decry
(d) Support

3. What did the fire any not destroy, even though the US government made claims that it did?
(a) Buildings
(b) Trees
(c) Crops
(d) Money

4. _____________ hurts the soil on a virtually permanent basis, according to Carson.
(a) Arsenic
(b) Corn crops
(c) DDT
(d) Wild orange oil

5. ___________ health problems used to be caused by diseases like smallpox, cholera, and the plague.
(a) Public
(b) Rural
(c) Upper class
(d) Poverty

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?

5. What is not one of the animal species which are bolstered by the inclusion of sagebrush in the West?

(see the answer key)

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