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1. Americans spend this much every year trying to get rid of cockroaches:

            a) $17.45

            b) Their entire allowance

            c) $240 million

            d) $10 billion

2. Cockroaches can chew

            a) paper

            b) wood

            c) leather

            d) all of the above 

3. Cockroach antennae can

            a) taste

            b) smell

            c) detect heat and humidity

            d) all of the above 

 4. Some people are allergic to

            a) cockroach eggs

            b) cockroach skin

            c) just talking about cockroaches

            d) all of the above 

5. Cockroaches eat

            a) glue

            b) animal droppings

            c) fingernail clippings

            d) Lots of gross stuff. Do we have to talk about this?

6. Cockroaches are eaten by

            a) presidential candidates

            b) some mammals, wasps, centipedes and spiders

            c) Draco Malfoy d) Nemo

7. One kind of cockroach from Madagascar communicates by

            a) email

            b) hissing

            c) squirting

            d) thumping

 

 

Answers:
1-c, 2-d, 3-d, 4-d, 5-d, 6-b, 7-b