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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 "The Human Price".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The spraying of chemicals became more widespread because of new insecticides and a surplus of ___________.
(a) Workers
(b) Airplanes
(c) POWs
(d) Money

2. All foods, according to Carson, contain some level of such poisonous chemicals as __________.
(a) Nicotine
(b) Boron
(c) Bitter orange
(d) DDT

3. What is the most important earth-dwelling creature, according to Carson?
(a) Mouse
(b) Millipede
(c) Mole
(d) Earthworm

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

5. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.
(a) A decade
(b) A few months
(c) A year
(d) Millennia

Short Answer Questions

1. Plants growing in contaminated soil may carry the contaminants into their _____________.

2. ______________ do not kill people or birds, although the US government said they did.

3. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.

4. Since the 1940s, more than 200 chemicals have been created for the purpose of _____________.

5. Who has poisoned the entire environment, according to Carson as she will prove in this book?

(see the answer key)

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