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

2. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?
(a) Smog
(b) Insects
(c) Black birds
(d) White powder

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

4. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.
(a) Air
(b) Exhaust fumes
(c) Packaged foods
(d) Food chain

5. Toxic substances work to stop the body's natural functions; some of them may cause __________ to begin growing.
(a) Poisonous reactions
(b) Cancer cells
(c) Arms
(d) Resistance

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."

2. What happens to the people in the beginning description which puzzles doctors?

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

4. Large-scale, single-crop farming eliminates the _______________ that provided built in control of pests.

5. The town Carson describes is one where townsfolk and farmers and wildlife all live in _____________.

(see the answer key)

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