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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. For many thousands of years, ___________ have returned from the Atlantic each year.
(a) Salmon
(b) Eels
(c) Mackerel
(d) Trout

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

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

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

10. Foods derived from and containing __________ contain the largest amounts of chemicals.
(a) Animal fats
(b) Sugar
(c) Water
(d) Dairy

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the widespread Canadian spraying program designed to control the population of?

2. The long term effects of chemical exposure, per Carson, are easy to ignore as long as they are ___________.

3. Every cell in the body is involved in the production of ___________.

4. The American Cancer Society estimates that ______ out of 3 families will be stricken by cancer.

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

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