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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 is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?
(a) Humans
(b) Bees
(c) Hummingbirds
(d) Scientists

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the toxin which is released through nuclear explosion?

2. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.

3. In the modern world, life does not have the luxury of ________.

4. Every human being now has contact with _________ every moment of his life - even from conception.

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

(see the answer key)

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