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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Elixirs of Death".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. DDT seems to be able to be stored in the __________ tissues of the body.
(a) Muscle
(b) Fatty
(c) Lean
(d) Outer

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

4. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.
(a) A decade
(b) A year
(c) A few months
(d) Millennia

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The roadsides are lush with trees, ferns, and ____________.

2. Because animals are affected by chemicals, scientists are having a hard time finding uncontaminated animals to serve as _________ in experiments.

3. Plants and animals specifically ________ to live in whatever their environments are.

4. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.

5. What group of substances includes insecticides and pesticides?

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