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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The long term effects of chemical exposure, per Carson, are easy to ignore as long as they are ___________.
(a) Far away
(b) Regulated
(c) Invisible
(d) Widespread

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

3. The ____________ systems of all creatures are adversely affected by DDT and other chemicals, so that this drastic disruption of the unversal currency of life affects the capacity of all living things.
(a) Circulatory
(b) Muscular
(c) Reproductive
(d) Nervous

4. _______________ can be much more effective at controlling budworm.
(a) Natural parasites
(b) Other chemicals
(c) Targeted spraying
(d) Organic herbs

5. Individual sensitivity to the various toxic substances is extremely ___________.
(a) Low
(b) Meaningless
(c) Useful in measuring limits
(d) Variable

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

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

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

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

10. What are many chemicals sold in that could result in high chemical exposure if dropped by the consumer?
(a) Glass
(b) Metal
(c) Plastic
(d) Paper

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

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

13. What is also destroyed when the target insects are sprayed by chemicals, damaging and changing the ecosystem?
(a) Trees
(b) Their natural enemies
(c) Humans
(d) Water sources

14. Without functioning ____________, even our organs are useless.
(a) Brain activity
(b) Lungs
(c) Cells
(d) Blood streams

15. Many attempts to control ___________ have results in massive fish kills.
(a) Army ants
(b) Fire ants
(c) Brown ants
(d) Spiders

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Insecticides used against insects that feed on __________ have killed many fish in the South.

3. What is not one of the now chemically resistant insects in the United States?

4. Where do the fish go from #97 do in order to spawn and to perpetuate their kind?

5. The fish may die some time after spraying as the toxins can be released from ____________.

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