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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The limits the government has established regarding chemical levels in foods are __________.
(a) Low
(b) Unavailable
(c) Effective
(d) Meaningless

2. 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) Reproductive
(c) Nervous
(d) Muscular

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

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

5. One changed __________ can affect the entire body system.
(a) Molecule
(b) Plant
(c) Animal
(d) Organ

Short Answer Questions

1. Chemical residues in _______ are another source of gradual buildup of chemicals in the body.

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

3. What is the cellular structure that contains enzymes which accomplish the work of energy production?

4. Our individual bodies have a kind of _______, just as the larger environment does.

5. __________________ is the basis of all life function.

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