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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 not one of the now chemically resistant insects in the United States?
(a) Wood tick
(b) German cockroach
(c) House mosquito
(d) Spider

2. There has been a huge increase in the incidence of ___________ and in our awareness of it in fewer than 200 years.
(a) Malignancy
(b) Influenza
(c) Pneumonia
(d) Virus

3. The American Cancer Society estimates that ______ out of 3 families will be stricken by cancer.
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 2

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

5. __________ have been used very successfully to protect reforested areas in the application of forest hygiene.
(a) Gnats
(b) Slugs
(c) Red ants
(d) Mosquitoes

Short Answer Questions

1. Large areas of Michigan were sprayed in 1959 in order to try to control what insect?

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

3. Humans hold a narrow view of _________, using them when they are immediately useful only.

4. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?

5. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.

(see the answer key)

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