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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. It may be impossible to tell what is __________ and what is effect because there may be years between the two.
(a) Cause
(b) Truth
(c) Toxic
(d) Harmful

2. Spraying for the ________ began in the 1950s and resulted in the death of robins.
(a) Fire ants
(b) French beetles
(c) Dutch Elm Disease
(d) Gypsy moth

3. What is the name of the naturally occurring mineral that is toxic to humans and most creatures but is still used as a pesticide?
(a) Arsenic
(b) Carbon
(c) Boron
(d) Lead

4. Large areas of Michigan were sprayed in 1959 in order to try to control what insect?
(a) Japanese beetle
(b) Locusts
(c) Fireflies
(d) Chinese ladybug

5. The campaign in the American West to replace _______ with grass is one example of man's arrogant approach to plants.
(a) Cacti
(b) Sand
(c) Sagebrush
(d) Trees

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________ birds have also died as a result of the elm spraying.

2. What can the chemical DDT cause in fish?

3. Wildlife biologists and forestry experts __________ the mass killings of so much life.

4. Carson wonders - How can we as __________ beings continue to allow such rampant and unjustified killings?

5. What did the earthworms dine on that infected them with DDT?

(see the answer key)

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