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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 did the earthworms dine on that infected them with DDT?
(a) Mulch of elm leaves
(b) Bird droppings
(c) Flowers
(d) Soil

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

3. The Earth itself is ________ only as long as the creatures within it are.
(a) Promising
(b) Useful
(c) Healthy
(d) Clean

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

5. Repeated spraying lead to poisoned environments in which not only are resident creatures killed, but also those that _________ there.
(a) Migrate
(b) Visiting
(c) Are near to
(d) Were born

Short Answer Questions

1. Most people's chemical exposure comes ___________ rather than in mass sprayings.

2. ________________ are affected because poisoned fish are not a source of food to sell.

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

4. In the modern world, life does not have the luxury of ________.

5. The majority of the Earth's surface is covered with __________.

(see the answer key)

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