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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 "And No Birds Sing".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was one of the chemicals used in the massive spraying in #78?
(a) Melatonin
(b) DDT
(c) Aldrin
(d) Bitter orange

3. Spraying for the ________ began in the 1950s and resulted in the death of robins.
(a) French beetles
(b) Gypsy moth
(c) Fire ants
(d) Dutch Elm Disease

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

5. In ___________ in the 1950s, the chemical that appeared in the water had actually been created spontaneously by the interaction of other chemicals present.
(a) California
(b) Maine
(c) Colorado
(d) Florida

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.

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

3. What was infected with chemicals that led to the death of so many robins?

4. What becomes more numerous when the bird population goes down?

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

(see the answer key)

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