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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.
(a) Pine
(b) Maple
(c) Birch
(d) Palm

2. Without the Earth's ________, there could be no plants.
(a) Light
(b) Soil
(c) Human help
(d) Water

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

4. Attempts to control a particular ________ in Clear Lake, California resulted in massive bird death.
(a) Gnat
(b) Bird
(c) Fish
(d) Spider

5. The population of Japanese Beetles in sprayed areas is ______________ .
(a) Gone
(b) Larger than ever
(c) Going down
(d) Unchanged

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

7. Humans __________ plants when an an immediate use is not obvious for a plant.
(a) Move
(b) Destroy
(c) Test
(d) Eat

8. The _________ of Wyoming which supported many animal species were unintentionally killed, leading to massive animal death.
(a) Willows
(b) Sagebrush
(c) Trees
(d) Weeds

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

10. ____________ can eliminate only the unwanted plants and give the beneficial plants a chance to thrive.
(a) Targeted extermination
(b) Selective spraying
(c) Dangerous chemicals
(d) Herbicides

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

12. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?
(a) Insects
(b) Smog
(c) Black birds
(d) White powder

13. What was applied to a large area of Illinois over an 8 year period in order to try to control the Japanese Beetle?
(a) ALdrin
(b) DDT
(c) Dieldrin
(d) Bitter orange

14. What was one of the chemicals used in the massive spraying in #78?
(a) Aldrin
(b) DDT
(c) Bitter orange
(d) Melatonin

15. Large-scale, single-crop farming eliminates the _______________ that provided built in control of pests.
(a) Biodiversity
(b) Possibility
(c) Regulation
(d) Chemicals

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.

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

4. The business of chemical _______ is booming because people approach plant life without thinking about any perspective but their own immediate desires.

5. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."

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