7. after reading the blography, what one word best describes rachel carson? what specific information led you to your condusion? 8. what was the common peroption of women scientists in the 1940s and 1950s? what information in the story led you to your answer? 9. are we continuing to poison our environment with pesticide? will this practice continue in the future? why do you feel this way or more information, read something's wrong with froger in reading level twelve of this series) 10. why did rachel carson continue her crusade against pesticides even after she became ill with terminal cancer? 11. write a title for the story. use as few words as possible

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)