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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. How long can chemicals remain in the soil to which they are applied?
(a) A few days
(b) 1 year
(c) 12 years
(d) 1 month

2. Because animals are affected by chemicals, scientists are having a hard time finding uncontaminated animals to serve as _________ in experiments.
(a) Controls
(b) Subjects
(c) Examples
(d) Helpers

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

4. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.
(a) Pine
(b) Birch
(c) Palm
(d) Maple

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.

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

3. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.

4. Humankind is producing new ________ in the laboratory, though these used to be limited only to nature's actions.

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

(see the answer key)

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