Chapter 28

Quiz for Chapter Twenty-Eight Thinking Like a Historian: The Environmental Movement: Reimagining the Human-Earth Relationship

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Question 1

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (source 1) spurred the environmental movement with its analysis of the impact of which of the following?A. The risk of radiation
B. The effects of overpopulation
C. The dangers of contact with hazardous chemicals
D. The impact of logging

Question 2

Ralph Nader (source 2) characterized pollution as violence resulting from a system of oppression and suppression. This perspective on the environment borrowed from the rhetoric of which earlier movement?A. Jeffersonian republicanism
B. The progressive-era conservation movement
C. New Deal liberalism
D. The New Left

Question 3

How might the juxtaposition of the images in sources 4 and 7 have influenced Americans’ thinking about environmental issues?A. The images showed Americans that the earth was beautiful and deserving of protection from trash.
B. The images emphasized the earth’s small and finite nature and its vulnerability to the effects of waste.
C. The images suggested that both the universe and human ingenuity were equally miraculous.
D. The images showed that the earth was still beautiful, despite humans’ activities.

Question 4

In his speech at the 1980 Republican National Convention, candidate Ronald Reagan said, “Make no mistake. We will not permit the safety of our people or our environmental heritage to be jeopardized, but we are going to reaffirm that the economic prosperity of our people is a fundamental part of our environment.” With these remarks, Reagan was suggesting thatA. environmental protection would bring greater economic prosperity to the United States.
B. protecting the environment could threaten American economic prosperity.
C. the environmental movement was a communist plot against the United States.
D. American economic prosperity and care for the environment were incompatible.