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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is a widespread, critical shortage of ____________ across the globe.
(a) Fresh water
(b) Water treatment
(c) Rain
(d) Filters

2. Who has poisoned the entire environment, according to Carson as she will prove in this book?
(a) Animals
(b) People
(c) Insects
(d) Plants

3. What is contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?
(a) Chicken feed
(b) Water
(c) Farmers
(d) Hay in the barn

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

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

6. The town Carson describes _________ actually exist.
(a) Can
(b) Does not
(c) Does
(d) Will

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

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

9. Who was intended to benefit from the removal of sagebrush from the American West?
(a) Livestock
(b) Birds
(c) Other plant species
(d) Lizards

10. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.
(a) The placenta
(b) Powdered formula
(c) Water
(d) Mother's milk

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

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

13. How long can chemicals remain in the soil to which they are applied?
(a) 1 month
(b) 12 years
(c) 1 year
(d) A few days

14. 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) Carrot
(d) Beans

15. What is the toxin which is released through nuclear explosion?
(a) Gamma rays
(b) Radiation
(c) Soot
(d) Arsenic

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.

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?

4. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.

5. How was the large population of sagebrush destroyed in the West?

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