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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "The Other Road".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How was the large population of sagebrush destroyed in the West?
(a) Physical removal
(b) Burning
(c) Suffocation
(d) Sprayings

5. What did the fire any not destroy, even though the US government made claims that it did?
(a) Buildings
(b) Crops
(c) Trees
(d) Money

Short Answer Questions

1. For many thousands of years, ___________ have returned from the Atlantic each year.

2. What is not one of the now chemically resistant insects in the United States?

3. What is contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?

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

5. Human life adapts to environment changes ____________.

(see the answer key)

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