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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 is the most important earth-dwelling creature, according to Carson?
(a) Mole
(b) Earthworm
(c) Millipede
(d) Mouse

2. What is not produced as a result of not having the pollination process continue?
(a) Fruit
(b) Leaves
(c) Air
(d) Stones

3. If a robin did not die, it often suffered from __________ as a result of being exposed to DDT.
(a) Blindness
(b) Deafness
(c) Sterility
(d) Cancer

4. Without plants, there could be no _________ of any kind.
(a) Animals
(b) Pollution
(c) Greenery
(d) Food

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?

2. Since the 1940s, more than 200 chemicals have been created for the purpose of _____________.

3. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?

4. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unlikely to bounce back after spraying that kill large numbers of their kind?

2. What happens to the liver when it processes chemicals in the body?

3. What are the relatively new sources of water pollution, according to this book?

4. Why do the tourists come to see the birds, as stated in this opening chapter?

5. What are some of the reasons why DDT is so harmful to fish?

6. What are some examples of products from a person's everyday life that can contain harmful chemicals?

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

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

9. What is happening to insects, even though there have been mass applications of chemicals to get rid of them?

10. What human function is adversely affected by exposure to chemicals and to radiation, disrupting the universal currency of energy?

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