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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. If a robin did not die, it often suffered from __________ as a result of being exposed to DDT.
(a) Cancer
(b) Blindness
(c) Deafness
(d) Sterility

2. Toxic substances work to stop the body's natural functions; some of them may cause __________ to begin growing.
(a) Arms
(b) Poisonous reactions
(c) Cancer cells
(d) Resistance

3. __________ are simply plants that are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(a) Weeds
(b) Trees
(c) Bushes
(d) Flowers

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

5. Large areas of Michigan were sprayed in 1959 in order to try to control what insect?
(a) Japanese beetle
(b) Locusts
(c) Chinese ladybug
(d) Fireflies

Short Answer Questions

1. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?

2. Humans hold a narrow view of _________, using them when they are immediately useful only.

3. Spring begins in the United States with the once-familiar ___________.

4. What was the source of the contamination in the eagle population?

5. The business of chemical _______ is booming because people approach plant life without thinking about any perspective but their own immediate desires.

(see the answer key)

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