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

2. ____________ provides the best ways to control insects, according to Carson.
(a) Nature
(b) Chemical engineering
(c) Science
(d) Man

3. What was not one of the results of the sprayings in Michigan?
(a) People became ill
(b) Birds died
(c) The widespread death of the intended target
(d) House pets were sickened

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

5. Those who enjoy _________ also lose when the fish population goes down.
(a) Touring the waterways
(b) Scuba diving
(c) Sport fishing
(d) Surfing

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the people in the beginning description which puzzles doctors?

3. Chemicals can travel down ___________ or in underground aquifers to the bodies of water.

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

5. Chemical insecticides and herbicides are challenging because they are _____________.

(see the answer key)

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