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- 1. Multiple Choice
As described in the selection from Silent Spring, what is the town like before everything begins to change? Choose two options.
prosperous
unhappy
beautiful
crowded
troubled
- 2. Multiple Choice
In the selection from Silent Spring, 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.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is most likely the cause of the great changes that happen to the town in the selection from Silent Spring?
pesticides
radiation
bacteria
floods
- 4. Multiple Choice
In the selection from Silent Spring, how do animal populations change after the town changes?
Animal populations mostly stay the same.
Birds are still plentiful, but most insects die.
Most birds disappear, but farm animals are fine.
Animal life in general disappears or does poorly.
- 5. Multiple Choice
In the selection from Silent Spring, how do plants change after the town changes?
Most plants become overgrown and weedy.
Some plants turn into a white powder.
Many plants wither and die.
Most plants burn in a fire.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What would a blight most likely do to a farmer’s crops?
make them more plentiful
allow them to sell for a profit
help them to ripen sooner
cause them to rot or die
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of these words tells how a person with maladies is most likely to feel?
ill
silly
angry
embarrassed
- 8. Multiple Choice
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.
- 9. Multiple Choice
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.
hearing and touch
sight and hearing
touch and taste
smell and sight
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which set of words in this description from Silent Spring has the greatest negative connotations? Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens, the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was the shadow of death.
evil, sickened, died, death
spell, community, shadow
settled, mysterious, everywhere
swept, flocks, chickens, cattle, sheep
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which phrase best describes the mood established in these sentences from Silent Spring? There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices.
mysterious and frightening
hectic and confusing
sad and regretful
bitter and angry
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is one meaning of the Old English suffix -ness?
the quality of being
the opposite of
the study of
to become
- 13. Multiple Choice
What happens to the adjective sick if you add the suffix -ness to it?
It turns into a verb meaning “to become sick.”
It turns into a noun meaning “the study of being sick.”
It turns into a noun meaning “the condition of being sick.”
It remains an adjective but now means “the opposite of being sick.”
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