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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chemical insecticides and herbicides are challenging because they are _____________.
(a) Hidden from view
(b) Difficult to detect
(c) Ignored
(d) Sometimes safe

3. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.
(a) Packaged foods
(b) Exhaust fumes
(c) Food chain
(d) Air

4. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.
(a) Arsenic
(b) Boron
(c) Carbon
(d) Phosphorus

5. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?
(a) Waves
(b) Changing leaves
(c) Fish population
(d) Migratory birds

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Humans hold a narrow view of _________, using them when they are immediately useful only.

3. Spring begins in the United States with the once-familiar ___________.

4. Herbicides can change the _________ of plants, making toxic plants more appealing to animals.

5. ____________ can eliminate only the unwanted plants and give the beneficial plants a chance to thrive.

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the lies the government told about the fire any population?

2. What are two of the factors which are contributing to the chemical deposits in the earth, water, and living tissues?

3. What do our individual bodies have that the larger environment does as well?

4. What happens when the fat stores of the fish are being drawn upon for energy?

5. Where does people's chemical exposure mainly come from, according to Carson?

6. What happens during the sterilization method of insect control?

7. What kinds of foods contain the highest levels of chemicals?

8. What is seawater not able to be used for on the Earth?

9. Describe the chemical arsenic, what it does, and how it is used in the world in today's times.

10. What does man want to replace the American West's sagebrush with?

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