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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. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.
(a) Sunlight
(b) Bombs
(c) Charcoal
(d) Trees

2. Since the 1940s, more than 200 chemicals have been created for the purpose of _____________.
(a) Pest control
(b) Experimentation
(c) War
(d) Pharmaceuticals

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

4. Every human being now has contact with _________ every moment of his life - even from conception.
(a) Insects
(b) Dangerous chemicals
(c) Pests
(d) Nature

5. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.
(a) Carbon
(b) Arsenic
(c) Phosphorus
(d) Boron

Short Answer Questions

1. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.

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

5. Who has poisoned the entire environment, according to Carson as she will prove in this book?

(see the answer key)

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