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

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

3. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?
(a) Fish population
(b) Waves
(c) Migratory birds
(d) Changing leaves

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The town Carson describes _________ actually exist.

2. Plants and animals specifically ________ to live in whatever their environments are.

3. How long can chemicals remain in the soil to which they are applied?

4. Only _________ have gained the ability to reserve the roles and actually change the environment they live in.

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

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