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

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

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

4. Humankind is producing new ________ in the laboratory, though these used to be limited only to nature's actions.
(a) DNA
(b) Plants
(c) Wastes
(d) Chemicals

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?

4. DDT seems to be able to be stored in the __________ tissues of the body.

5. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.

(see the answer key)

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