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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 group of substances includes insecticides and pesticides?
(a) Organic cleaners
(b) Helpful mixtures
(c) Necessary evils
(d) Toxic chemicals

2. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.
(a) Tinkered
(b) Grown
(c) Battled
(d) Interacted

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

4. Where was the population of Japanese Beetles effectively controlled?
(a) East
(b) West
(c) South
(d) North

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chemical insecticides and herbicides are challenging because they are _____________.

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

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

4. What is the name for chemicals that mix with other pollutants and substances in the water, producing unidentifiable results?

5. The population of Japanese Beetles in sprayed areas is ______________ .

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Carson, what does a chemically weakened environment open the door to?

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

4. How does Carson think weeds are defined by most people in today's world?

5. What has happened with synthetic pesticides within less than twenty years of their existence?

6. What do more American children die from today than from any other disease, according to the book as it was written in its own time period?

7. Why did so many birds die as a result of the spraying for Dutch Elm Disease?

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

9. What are synthetic pesticides now made of, as opposed to the naturally occurring minerals which were once used before the war?

10. What have red ants been used for in the matter of forest hygiene?

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