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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did the fire any not destroy, even though the US government made claims that it did?
(a) Trees
(b) Money
(c) Buildings
(d) Crops

4. What do some insects carry that makes their termination so important in today's times?
(a) Deadly diseases
(b) Venom
(c) Mutations
(d) Cancer

5. ____________ alone have the ability to create carcinogens, which cause cancer.
(a) Plants
(b) Human beings
(c) Insects
(d) Animals

6. _______________ has been largely controlled through improved living conditions and sanitation.
(a) Cancer
(b) Population
(c) Chemical exposure
(d) Infectious disease

7. __________________ is the basis of all life function.
(a) Adenosine
(b) Photosynthesis
(c) ATP production
(d) Cellular oxidation

8. What kind of control is actually more effective and less costly than mass spraying?
(a) Non-control
(b) Rural
(c) Local
(d) Natural

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

10. Our chemical attacks on insects have weakened entire ___________.
(a) Governments
(b) Ecosystems
(c) Cities
(d) Countries

11. The limits the government has established regarding chemical levels in foods are __________.
(a) Low
(b) Unavailable
(c) Effective
(d) Meaningless

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

13. What is the form of energy which is produced at every stage of the mitochondrial process?
(a) DNA
(b) ARP
(c) ADP
(d) ATP

14. ____________ provides the best ways to control insects, according to Carson.
(a) Chemical engineering
(b) Nature
(c) Science
(d) Man

15. The __________ system is susceptible to damage by toxins like chlorinated hydrocarbons and organic phosphates.
(a) Circulatory
(b) Renal
(c) Muscular
(d) Nervous

Short Answer Questions

1. What posed no threat, only a minor annoyance, yet was still the target of a massive spraying campaign?

2. There has been a huge increase in the incidence of ___________ and in our awareness of it in fewer than 200 years.

3. More American children now die from __________ than from any other disease.

4. The smallest _______ reveals a whole universe of relationships within the body

5. Those who enjoy _________ also lose when the fish population goes down.

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