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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The business of chemical _______ is booming because people approach plant life without thinking about any perspective but their own immediate desires.
(a) Cleaners
(b) Cosmetics
(c) Fragrances
(d) Weed killers

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

3. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."
(a) Do what we want
(b) Know
(c) Change
(d) Control others

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

5. There is evidence that chemicals travel via ____________.
(a) The air
(b) Animals
(c) Crops
(d) Groundwater

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

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

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

9. Not only do chemicals hurt the soil, but they also ____________ the soil for years.
(a) Remain in
(b) Change
(c) Clean
(d) Help

10. Because synthetic pesticides are ______, they can easily poison intended and unintended targets.
(a) Widespread
(b) Dangerous
(c) Organic
(d) Lethal

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

12. 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) Library
(d) Toilet

13. What did the birds provide naturally that made their deaths all the more significant?
(a) Migration patterns
(b) Pest control
(c) Songs
(d) Eggs

14. The Earth itself is ________ only as long as the creatures within it are.
(a) Useful
(b) Clean
(c) Promising
(d) Healthy

15. Other crops show signs of damage or ______ when planted in contaminated soil.
(a) Better taste
(b) Death
(c) Stunted growth
(d) Unnatural height

Short Answer Questions

1. Only _________ have gained the ability to reserve the roles and actually change the environment they live in.

2. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.

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

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

5. Because animals are affected by chemicals, scientists are having a hard time finding uncontaminated animals to serve as _________ in experiments.

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