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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The business of chemical _______ is booming because people approach plant life without thinking about any perspective but their own immediate desires.

2. Large areas of Michigan were sprayed in 1959 in order to try to control what insect?

3. Continued use of pesticides could very well damage soil ___________.

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

5. All of the Earth's watersystems are _____________, so contamination of a part is contamination of the whole.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when the bees are suddenly gone from this beautiful American town?

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

4. What is the environmental problem that results from all of the water sources of the Earth being connected to each other?

5. What makes humans different from the plants and animals in nature, with regard to their ability to do?

6. What were the results of the spraying of the Japanese beetle in Michigan in 1959?

7. What is the name of the cancer that develops rapidly in patients?

8. 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?

9. What kinds of trees are in the forests described in this chapter?

10. Where does radiation tend to occur naturally, as it has for many years before the time of the humans?

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