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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "The Other Road".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Only _________ have gained the ability to reserve the roles and actually change the environment they live in.
(a) Insects
(b) Human beings
(c) Plants
(d) Animals

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

3. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?
(a) Black birds
(b) White powder
(c) Insects
(d) Smog

4. Wildlife biologists and forestry experts __________ the mass killings of so much life.
(a) Assist in
(b) Support
(c) Decry
(d) Are guilty of

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.

2. ________________ are affected because poisoned fish are not a source of food to sell.

3. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?

4. Because synthetic pesticides are ______, they can easily poison intended and unintended targets.

5. What is the name of the naturally occurring mineral that is toxic to humans and most creatures but is still used as a pesticide?

(see the answer key)

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