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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Insects are controlled by limitations on the amount of _________ available to them, a fact often overlooked by humans.
(a) Mates
(b) Disease
(c) Food
(d) Air

2. What was the widespread Canadian spraying program designed to control the population of?
(a) Bacteria levels in the water
(b) Spruce budworm
(c) Salmon
(d) Pond spiders

3. What kinds of insects are becoming resistant to the chemical sprayings?
(a) Stronger
(b) Weaker
(c) All
(d) None

4. The liver can become damaged by the poisons it filters, causing it to become ___________ effective.
(a) Much more
(b) More
(c) Less
(d) Generally

5. Chemical residues in _______ are another source of gradual buildup of chemicals in the body.
(a) Paper
(b) Water
(c) Food
(d) Cosmetics

6. More American children now die from __________ than from any other disease.
(a) Cancer
(b) Sepsis
(c) Influenza
(d) Pneumonia

7. Every cell in the body is involved in the production of ___________.
(a) Toxins
(b) Energy
(c) Babies
(d) New life

8. There has been a huge increase in the incidence of ___________ and in our awareness of it in fewer than 200 years.
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Influenza
(c) Virus
(d) Malignancy

9. What aisle does Carson think is presented as innocuously as the pickle or laundry detergent aisle?
(a) Produce
(b) Insecticide
(c) Packaged foods
(d) Cleansers

10. Where do the fish go from #97 do in order to spawn and to perpetuate their kind?
(a) Up the rivers
(b) Ponds
(c) Into the ocean
(d) Into dens

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

12. All foods, according to Carson, contain some level of such poisonous chemicals as __________.
(a) DDT
(b) Bitter orange
(c) Boron
(d) Nicotine

13. The spraying of chemicals became more widespread because of new insecticides and a surplus of ___________.
(a) Airplanes
(b) Workers
(c) POWs
(d) Money

14. The fish may die some time after spraying as the toxins can be released from ____________.
(a) Plants
(b) Rocks
(c) Fat stores
(d) Water

15. One changed __________ can affect the entire body system.
(a) Molecule
(b) Animal
(c) Plant
(d) Organ

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ________________ are affected because poisoned fish are not a source of food to sell.

3. What does the narrow window reveal when seen from far away?

4. The limits the government has established regarding chemical levels in foods are __________.

5. A chemically weakened environment opens the door to explosive insect ____________.

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