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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Elixirs of Death".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."
(a) Change
(b) Know
(c) Do what we want
(d) Control others

2. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.
(a) Exhaust fumes
(b) Food chain
(c) Packaged foods
(d) Air

3. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?
(a) Hummingbirds
(b) Humans
(c) Bees
(d) Scientists

4. Because animals are affected by chemicals, scientists are having a hard time finding uncontaminated animals to serve as _________ in experiments.
(a) Helpers
(b) Controls
(c) Examples
(d) Subjects

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Humankind is producing new ________ in the laboratory, though these used to be limited only to nature's actions.

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

3. What is not produced as a result of not having the pollination process continue?

4. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.

5. The town Carson describes _________ actually exist.

(see the answer key)

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