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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 "And No Birds Sing".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?
(a) Chicken feed
(b) Hay in the barn
(c) Water
(d) Farmers

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

5. Spring begins in the United States with the once-familiar ___________.
(a) Storms
(b) Temperature changes
(c) Birdsong
(d) Heavy rains

Short Answer Questions

1. Attempts to control a particular ________ in Clear Lake, California resulted in massive bird death.

2. What becomes more numerous when the bird population goes down?

3. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.

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

5. Wildlife is unlikely to bounce back after _________ that kill large numbers of their kind.

(see the answer key)

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