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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. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.
(a) Interacted
(b) Grown
(c) Battled
(d) Tinkered

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

3. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.
(a) The placenta
(b) Mother's milk
(c) Water
(d) Powdered formula

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Every human being now has contact with _________ every moment of his life - even from conception.

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

4. Because synthetic pesticides are ______, they can easily poison intended and unintended targets.

5. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.

(see the answer key)

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