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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. What is plentiful in the streams, providing good fishing spots since early settler times?
(a) Insects
(b) Eels
(c) Trout
(d) Guppies

2. The town Carson describes _________ actually exist.
(a) Does not
(b) Will
(c) Can
(d) Does

3. There is a disagreement among scientists about how much _______ can be safely stored in the body.
(a) DDT
(b) Water
(c) Arsenic
(d) Fat

4. ____________ is also contaminated because washing does not remove chemicals, nor does cooking.
(a) Cheese
(b) Produce
(c) Packaged beans
(d) Meat

5. What is the toxin which is released through nuclear explosion?
(a) Gamma rays
(b) Soot
(c) Arsenic
(d) Radiation

Short Answer Questions

1. Chemicals can travel down ___________ or in underground aquifers to the bodies of water.

2. _____________ is not the only source of chemical contamination in the world.

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

4. Insects are controlled by limitations on the amount of _________ available to them, a fact often overlooked by humans.

5. The long term effects of chemical exposure, per Carson, are easy to ignore as long as they are ___________.

(see the answer key)

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