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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Smelt
(b) Fiddler crab
(c) Earth worm
(d) Round worm

2. Which state has abandoned broad eradication in favor of the control in #117?
(a) Florida
(b) California
(c) Ohio
(d) Maine

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

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

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

6. Radiation and arsenic are naturally occurring substances that cause _________.
(a) Fatigue
(b) Protection
(c) Fertilization
(d) Cancer

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

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

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

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

11. Our individual bodies have a kind of _______, just as the larger environment does.
(a) Endurance
(b) Ecology
(c) Resistance
(d) Threshold

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

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

14. __________________ is the basis of all life function.
(a) Photosynthesis
(b) Adenosine
(c) Cellular oxidation
(d) ATP production

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

Short Answer Questions

1. _______________ can be much more effective at controlling budworm.

2. Without functioning ____________, even our organs are useless.

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

4. What did farm animals stop doing as a result of the fire any eradication program?

5. What kind of control is actually more effective and less costly than mass spraying?

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