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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. Bacteria, fungi, and algae are the smallest organisms of Earth and they live in the ________.
(a) Air
(b) Soil
(c) Water
(d) Stones

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

3. ______________ birds have also died as a result of the elm spraying.
(a) Treetop
(b) Black
(c) Burrowing
(d) Blue

4. Plants and animals specifically ________ to live in whatever their environments are.
(a) Adapted
(b) Used control
(c) Moved
(d) Killed

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. There is a widespread, critical shortage of ____________ across the globe.

3. What is not one of the animal species which are bolstered by the inclusion of sagebrush in the West?

4. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."

5. Carson wonders - How can we as __________ beings continue to allow such rampant and unjustified killings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are chemicals seen as so harmful to the soil and to the life within the soil?

2. What did the chemical warfare of World War II lead to?

3. What are the smallest organisms on the Earth which live in the soil?

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

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

6. How are commercial fishermen affected by the spread of chemicals among the fish population?

7. What were the results of the gypsy moth spraying in 1956?

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

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

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

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