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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. Large areas of Michigan were sprayed in 1959 in order to try to control what insect?
(a) Locusts
(b) Fireflies
(c) Japanese beetle
(d) Chinese ladybug

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

3. What was infected with chemicals that led to the death of so many robins?
(a) Air
(b) Earthworms
(c) Nest building material
(d) Water

4. In the modern world, life does not have the luxury of ________.
(a) Research
(b) Time
(c) Control
(d) Money

5. What is not one of the animal species which are bolstered by the inclusion of sagebrush in the West?
(a) Red tailed hawk
(b) Mule deer
(c) Sage grouse
(d) Pronghorn antelope

Short Answer Questions

1. Not only do chemicals hurt the soil, but they also ____________ the soil for years.

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

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

4. Spraying for the ________ began in the 1950s and resulted in the death of robins.

5. What happens to the people in the beginning description which puzzles doctors?

(see the answer key)

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