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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. Large-scale, single-crop farming eliminates the _______________ that provided built in control of pests.
(a) Chemicals
(b) Biodiversity
(c) Regulation
(d) Possibility

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

3. What is the name for chemicals that mix with other pollutants and substances in the water, producing unidentifiable results?
(a) Gunk
(b) Trep
(c) Sludge
(d) Muck

4. Without plants, there could be no _________ of any kind.
(a) Animals
(b) Greenery
(c) Pollution
(d) Food

5. _____________ hurts the soil on a virtually permanent basis, according to Carson.
(a) Corn crops
(b) Wild orange oil
(c) Arsenic
(d) DDT

Short Answer Questions

1. What was not one of the results of the sprayings in Michigan?

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

3. What group of substances includes insecticides and pesticides?

4. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?

5. Chemical wielding __________ overlook the terrible flaws in their programs of blanket spraying.

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