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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What organ works to filter out the chemicals that enter the human body?
(a) Gallbladder
(b) Liver
(c) Lungs
(d) Stomach

3. ___________ health problems used to be caused by diseases like smallpox, cholera, and the plague.
(a) Poverty
(b) Upper class
(c) Public
(d) Rural

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

5. Our individual bodies have a kind of _______, just as the larger environment does.
(a) Resistance
(b) Threshold
(c) Endurance
(d) Ecology

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

7. 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) Fiddler crab
(b) Round worm
(c) Smelt
(d) Earth worm

8. What posed no threat, only a minor annoyance, yet was still the target of a massive spraying campaign?
(a) Gypsy moth
(b) Ladybug
(c) Mosquito
(d) Fire ant

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

10. Scientists believe that human __________ is unrealistic.
(a) Control
(b) Chemical warfare
(c) Resistance
(d) Change

11. Because all foods contain chemicals, even in small doses, the human exposure is enormous in the __________.
(a) Restaurants
(b) World
(c) Pantry
(d) Aggregate

12. What are printed in tiny type and largely ignored by consumers?
(a) Instructions
(b) Package warnings
(c) Ingredient lists
(d) Names of products

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

14. It may be impossible to tell what is __________ and what is effect because there may be years between the two.
(a) Toxic
(b) Cause
(c) Harmful
(d) Truth

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________ is the basic process of life creation for everything from amoebae to humans.

2. Which state has abandoned broad eradication in favor of the control in #117?

3. One changed __________ can affect the entire body system.

4. Individual sensitivity to the various toxic substances is extremely ___________.

5. What did the fire any not destroy, even though the US government made claims that it did?

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