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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name for chemicals that mix with other pollutants and substances in the water, producing unidentifiable results?
(a) Gunk
(b) Muck
(c) Sludge
(d) Trep

2. Humankind is producing new ________ in the laboratory, though these used to be limited only to nature's actions.
(a) DNA
(b) Wastes
(c) Chemicals
(d) Plants

3. What happens to the people in the beginning description which puzzles doctors?
(a) They begin to hurt each other
(b) They disappear
(c) They have green spots on their faces
(d) They become ill

4. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?
(a) Cats
(b) Lakes
(c) Pebbles
(d) Birds

5. Wildlife biologists and forestry experts __________ the mass killings of so much life.
(a) Are guilty of
(b) Support
(c) Assist in
(d) Decry

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

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

8. In England, the treatment of _______ with chemicals resulted in widespread bird deaths.
(a) Seeds
(b) Water
(c) Trees
(d) Soil

9. Bacteria, fungi, and algae are the smallest organisms of Earth and they live in the ________.
(a) Soil
(b) Water
(c) Stones
(d) Air

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

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

12. Spring begins in the United States with the once-familiar ___________.
(a) Temperature changes
(b) Birdsong
(c) Heavy rains
(d) Storms

13. The roadsides are lush with trees, ferns, and ____________.
(a) Birds
(b) Soil
(c) Wildflowers
(d) Stones

14. What is not one of the animal species which are bolstered by the inclusion of sagebrush in the West?
(a) Sage grouse
(b) Mule deer
(c) Red tailed hawk
(d) Pronghorn antelope

15. What is plentiful in the streams, providing good fishing spots since early settler times?
(a) Guppies
(b) Trout
(c) Eels
(d) Insects

Short Answer Questions

1. There is evidence that chemicals travel via ____________.

2. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.

3. If a robin did not die, it often suffered from __________ as a result of being exposed to DDT.

4. The town Carson describes is one where townsfolk and farmers and wildlife all live in _____________.

5. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?

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