The Poison Sky (April 2018 Action Magazine)

What happens in Scene 2?

• Rachel Carson reads letters about animals harmed by DDT.

• Olga, Miss Benson, and Mr. Murphy come

  to Carson’s house for a meeting.

• Carson talks to Miss Benson on the phone.

• Carson visits the farms of all the letter writers.

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The radio ad for DDT in Scene 4 helps you understand that______.

• DDT is not as harmful as Carson thinks

• people don’t trust DDT

• it will be easy for Carson to convince

  people that DDT is harmful

• it will be hard for Carson to convince

  people that DDT is harmful

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What is the mood of Scene 6, when the executives talk about Carson’s book?

• calm

• angry

• happy

• sad

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The infographic on page 24 shows how DDT

______.

• kills pests that eat food crops

• affects different animals as it moves

  through the food chain

• keeps mosquitoes from biting people

• has made the world safer

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Which line from the play expresses the same

idea as the answer to question 4?

• People would have no food.”

• “Pesticides have saved the world.”

• “.. . all of nature is connected.”

• “.. . your kids will be safe from diseases

  when you get rid of pests . . .”

Which do you learn in the Epilogue?

• DDT was banned in 1972.

• Mr. Murphy’s new piglets are all healthy.

• About 900 million pounds of pesticides

  were used last year.

• Cows today produce 20 percent more milk.

A dangerous_______________ called DDT was widely used in the 1950s and 1960s

• pesticide

• executive

• banned

• hoax

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Rachel Carson, a___________________and nature writer, wrote about the dangers of DDT.

• executive

• marine biologist

• pesticide

• banned

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___________________ at chemical companies began to worry that they would lose money.

• marine biologist

• hoax

• executives

• banned

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People who made DDT hoped the public would believe Rachel Carson’s book was a big___________________.

• banned

• executive

• hoax

• marine biologist

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