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

2. Since the 1940s, more than 200 chemicals have been created for the purpose of _____________.
(a) Pharmaceuticals
(b) Pest control
(c) War
(d) Experimentation

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

4. This kind of vegetable absorbs huge levels of poisons, which would have harmed humans if they had eaten the produce.
(a) Beans
(b) Tomato
(c) Carrot
(d) Peppers

5. Repeated spraying lead to poisoned environments in which not only are resident creatures killed, but also those that _________ there.
(a) Were born
(b) Migrate
(c) Are near to
(d) Visiting

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ hurts the soil on a virtually permanent basis, according to Carson.

2. Every human being now has contact with _________ every moment of his life - even from conception.

3. There is a disagreement among scientists about how much _______ can be safely stored in the body.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the cycle of life between the soil, plants, and the animals.

2. What was the immediate and devastating result of the spraying of the land for Dutch Elm Disease?

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

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

5. What are some of the diseases that insects can carry which are harmful to humans?

6. What are some of the ways humans have done great damage to other life forms, according to Carson?

7. What is an unexpected result of the deaths of many birds within an area?

8. What happened in Clear Lake, California in the 1940s and 1950s?

9. What does Carson encourage readers to do in relation to the information they receive about pollution and pest control?

10. What does Carson say the major public health problems used to be caused by?

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