7th Silent Spring Comprehension

1. -- What color was the withered vegetation along the roadsides?
6. -- What vocabulary word defined in the text means "illnesses or diseases"?
9. -- What type of fish lay in the shady pools of the streams?
10. -- Which animal silently crossed the fields half-hidden in mists?
12. -- What vocabulary word is defined as meaning "confused and unable to understand something"?
13. -- What substance fell "like snow" upon roofs, lawns, fields, and streams?
14. -- What type of people no longer visited the streams because all the fish had died?
17. -- According to the margin notes, what word means "very badly affected by trouble or illness"?
19. -- Which farm animals, besides cattle and sheep, suffered mysterious maladies in paragraph 3?
20. -- What word describes birds that were dying, trembling violently, and unable to fly?
23. -- What fruit trees came into bloom without any bees droning among the blossoms?
24. -- What word from the margin notes means "absence of noise or motion"?

2. -- What color was the granular powder found in gutters and shingles?
3. -- What field of biology did Rachel Carson major in during college?
4. -- What chemical pesticide was banned in 1972 after the publication of Silent Spring?
5. -- What degree field did Rachel Carson earn her master's in?
7. -- In what season did white clouds of bloom drift above the green fields in paragraph 1?
8. -- Which animals barked in the hills during autumn mornings?
11. -- What term refers to something that spoils, prevents growth, or destroys?
12. -- Who caused the silence and destruction in the town?
15. -- What process failed to happen because there were no bees?
16. -- What animals were farmers unable to raise because litters were small and young survived only days?
18. -- Does the specific town described in the text actually exist?
21. -- Who in the town became confused by the new kinds of sickness appearing among patients?
22. -- On the farms, what birds brooded while no chicks hatched?