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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "One in Every Four".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.
(a) Library
(b) Toilet
(c) Swimming pool
(d) Wildlife refuge

2. Wildlife is unlikely to bounce back after _________ that kill large numbers of their kind.
(a) Temperatures
(b) Sprayings
(c) Fires
(d) Weather patterns

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

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

5. There has been a huge increase in the incidence of ___________ and in our awareness of it in fewer than 200 years.
(a) Influenza
(b) Pneumonia
(c) Virus
(d) Malignancy

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the fire any not destroy, even though the US government made claims that it did?

2. All foods, according to Carson, contain some level of such poisonous chemicals as __________.

3. Some substances can interact with each other in unpredictable ways, increasing their _____________.

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

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

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