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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is not one of the now chemically resistant insects in the United States?
(a) Spider
(b) House mosquito
(c) Wood tick
(d) German cockroach

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

4. Our __________ carry thousands of years of adaptation and evolution to us.
(a) Brains
(b) Genes
(c) Skin cells
(d) Families

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

6. The temporary elimination of some ___________ will continue to result in horrific and permanent physical trauma.
(a) Humans
(b) Insects
(c) Plants
(d) Animals

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

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

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

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

11. ____________ is also contaminated because washing does not remove chemicals, nor does cooking.
(a) Packaged beans
(b) Cheese
(c) Produce
(d) Meat

12. 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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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