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Silent Spring Excerpt (My Perspectives)

Quiz by Yvonne Fanshaw

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  • Q1
    As described in the selection from Silent Spring, what is the town like before everything begins to change?
    Unhappy and Troubled
    Unhappy and Crowded
    Prosperous and Beautiful
    Beautiful and Crowded
    30s
  • Q2
    Why are doctors in the town puzzled?
    More children are being born with birth defects.
    People are reacting more violently to insect stings.
    People are being attacked more often by wild animals.
    More people are becoming sick from new kinds of illnesses.
    30s
  • Q3
    What is most likely the cause of the great changes that happen to the town in the selection from Silent Spring?
    bacteria
    pesticides
    radiation
    floods
    30s
  • Q4
    How do animal populations change after the town changes?
    Most birds disappear, but farm animals are fine.
    Animal populations mostly stay the same.
    Birds are still plentiful, but most insects die.
    Animal life in general disappears or does poorly.
    30s
  • Q5
    How do plants change after the town changes?
    Most plants become overgrown and weedy.
    Many plants wither and die.
    Most plants burn in a fire.
    Some plants turn into a white powder.
    30s
  • Q6
    What would a blight most likely do to a farmer’s crops?
    allow them to sell for a profit
    cause them to rot or die
    help them to ripen sooner
    make them more plentiful
    30s
  • Q7
    Which of these words tells how a person with maladies is most likely to feel?
    silly
    embarrassed
    angry
    ill
    30s
  • Q8
    Which sentence best illustrates the meaning of deserted?
    A caravan of traders moved slowly across the hot sand.
    Late at night, not a soul was to be seen on Roosevelt Avenue.
    We decided to wait and see the movie when Max was feeling better.
    The beach was so crowded that we had trouble finding a place to sit.
    30s
  • Q9
    From the details in the selection from Silent Spring, what can you conclude about the town before the changes take place?
    The town is a settlement for recent immigrants.
    The town is full of simple, poor, hard-working people.
    The town is located in an industrial area.
    The town attracts visitors who enjoy outdoor activities.
    30s
  • Q10
    Which of the following quotations from Silent Spring best supports your prvious answer?
    The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams....
    So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns.
    There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms....
    Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.
    30s
  • Q11
    What do you conclude is the author’s main purpose in writing?
    to frighten readers with a tale of mystery and horror
    to record farm practices and statistics for a farming magazine
    to describe her home town as part of her autobiography
    to warn people about a dangerous practice
    30s
  • Q12
    In this sentence from Silent Spring, to which of the five senses does the imagery most strongly appeal? Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.
    touch and taste
    sight and hearing
    smell and sight
    hearing and touch
    30s
  • Q13
    Which of the following words have a negative connotation?
    swept, flocks, chickens, cattle, sheep
    settled, mysterious, everywhere
    evil, sickened, died, death
    spell, community, shadow
    30s
  • Q14
    What is the best definition of "MOOD"?
    literary device used to describe a character
    literary device used to show the reader what to think
    literary device used to evoke emotionin the reader.
    literary device used to show what the character is feeling
    30s
  • Q15
    Which of these central ideas does Carson develop in the selection from Silent Spring by using word choices with negative connotations?
    People often foolishly destroy what they love most.
    Important changes can occur in a matter of moments.
    Farmers are having trouble keeping insects off their crops.
    Life in and near the town is being destroyed.
    30s

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