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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. This kind of vegetable absorbs huge levels of poisons, which would have harmed humans if they had eaten the produce.
(a) Peppers
(b) Tomato
(c) Carrot
(d) Beans

2. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.
(a) Birch
(b) Palm
(c) Pine
(d) Maple

3. The _________ of Wyoming which supported many animal species were unintentionally killed, leading to massive animal death.
(a) Weeds
(b) Willows
(c) Sagebrush
(d) Trees

4. DDT seems to be able to be stored in the __________ tissues of the body.
(a) Outer
(b) Muscle
(c) Fatty
(d) Lean

5. What was the source of the contamination in the eagle population?
(a) Fish
(b) Nests
(c) Other birds
(d) Trees

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not one of the animal species which are bolstered by the inclusion of sagebrush in the West?

2. In ___________ in the 1950s, the chemical that appeared in the water had actually been created spontaneously by the interaction of other chemicals present.

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

4. Large areas of Michigan were sprayed in 1959 in order to try to control what insect?

5. There is a widespread, critical shortage of ____________ across the globe.

(see the answer key)

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