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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The American Cancer Society estimates that ______ out of 3 families will be stricken by cancer.
(a) 1
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 0

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

3. What does the narrow window reveal when seen from far away?
(a) Nothing
(b) Sliver of light
(c) Blue skies
(d) Death

4. What did farm animals stop doing as a result of the fire any eradication program?
(a) Eating
(b) Stop producing healthy young
(c) Gaining weight
(d) Walking

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

6. Chemicals that act upon our genes can cause sudden __________, producing new and undesirable changes in subsequent generations.
(a) Mutations
(b) Impulses
(c) Death
(d) Mitosis

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

8. ____________ and animals were sprayed directly during the campaign against the gypsy moths.
(a) Building interiors
(b) Buildings
(c) Waterways
(d) People

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

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

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

12. 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) Earth worm
(c) Round worm
(d) Smelt

13. Human life adapts to environment changes ____________.
(a) Extremely slowly
(b) When it takes action
(c) Once in a while
(d) Quickly

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Some substances can interact with each other in unpredictable ways, increasing their _____________.

3. The temporary elimination of some ___________ will continue to result in horrific and permanent physical trauma.

4. Our __________ carry thousands of years of adaptation and evolution to us.

5. Insects are controlled by limitations on the amount of _________ available to them, a fact often overlooked by humans.

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