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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most people's chemical exposure comes ___________ rather than in mass sprayings.
(a) In large doses
(b) Day by day
(c) From food
(d) From cars

2. Those who enjoy _________ also lose when the fish population goes down.
(a) Touring the waterways
(b) Surfing
(c) Scuba diving
(d) Sport fishing

3. What is the name of the chemical that changes form once it enters the environment, becoming another more deadly chemical?
(a) Bromide
(b) HCl
(c) Heptachlor
(d) DDT

4. What did farm animals stop doing as a result of the fire any eradication program?
(a) Eating
(b) Stop producing healthy young
(c) Gaining weight
(d) Walking

5. What is the cellular structure that contains enzymes which accomplish the work of energy production?
(a) Vesicles
(b) Golgi Complex
(c) Mitochondria
(d) Lysosomes

6. Most state laws regarding chemical contamination are grossly ___________.
(a) Out numbered
(b) Enforced
(c) Overmeasured
(d) Inadequate

7. The smallest _______ reveals a whole universe of relationships within the body
(a) Pore
(b) Organ
(c) Molecule
(d) Skin cell

8. During what war time was the spraying of chemicals made more intense and more widespread?
(a) Civil War
(b) Vietnam
(c) WWII
(d) WWI

9. The long term effects of chemical exposure, per Carson, are easy to ignore as long as they are ___________.
(a) Regulated
(b) Invisible
(c) Far away
(d) Widespread

10. The ___________ is strictly a forest insect, which is why people were outraged when residential areas were sprayed to control it.
(a) Fire ant
(b) Dutch Elm
(c) Gypsy moth
(d) Tick

11. What kind of creature plays a vital role as a source for food, as well as being an aerator, a scavenger, and a source of bait?
(a) Smelt
(b) Earth worm
(c) Fiddler crab
(d) Round worm

12. What kind of disease can fleas carry and then transmit to humans as a result of a bite?
(a) Typhus
(b) Plague
(c) Yellow fever
(d) Malaria

13. The ____________ systems of all creatures are adversely affected by DDT and other chemicals, so that this drastic disruption of the unversal currency of life affects the capacity of all living things.
(a) Muscular
(b) Reproductive
(c) Circulatory
(d) Nervous

14. Insecticides used against insects that feed on __________ have killed many fish in the South.
(a) Tobacco
(b) Cotton
(c) Corn
(d) Grain

15. Chemicals that act upon our genes can cause sudden __________, producing new and undesirable changes in subsequent generations.
(a) Mitosis
(b) Impulses
(c) Death
(d) Mutations

Short Answer Questions

1. Radiation and arsenic are naturally occurring substances that cause _________.

2. The narrow ___________ is the tiniest structure in the human body.

3. ______________ do not kill people or birds, although the US government said they did.

4. Many attempts to control ___________ have results in massive fish kills.

5. What is also destroyed when the target insects are sprayed by chemicals, damaging and changing the ecosystem?

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