TENNESSEE CAT 7 EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔The four main components of IPM listed in this manual are? - ✔✔Inspection,pest
threshold determination, management procedures and evaluation.
✔✔Which cannot be made into a liquid formulation? - ✔✔Extruded block
✔✔Which is one of the most effective formulations for use against cockroaches, ants,
and rodents? - ✔✔Baits
✔✔Anticoagulant rodenticides kill rodents by? - ✔✔Preventing blood from clotting
✔✔Rodents may store grain pellet pesticides in undesirable locations? - ✔✔True
✔✔First-generation rodenticides must be fed upon more than once for rodents to
receive a lethal dose? - ✔✔True
✔✔Which are potentially more hazardous than other rodenticide formulations and must
be applied with extra caution? - ✔✔Tracking powder
✔✔Which formulation provides outstanding longevity in moist or wet conditions? -
✔✔Flowable micro encapsulate
✔✔In most cases, ___________ kills only the insects present in the air during time of
treatment. - ✔✔Fogging
✔✔Once a duster has been used for a given pesticide, it should never be used to apply
another? - ✔✔True
✔✔Rodent baits are not only toxic to most mammals that might eat the bait, they are
also toxic to fish? - ✔✔True
✔✔The most common and important pest cockroach is the? - ✔✔German
✔✔Female oriental cockroaches have? - ✔✔Short wings
✔✔Cockroaches need _________ to be successful. - ✔✔Food, moisture, and
harborage
✔✔The _______ cockroach does not require a close association with moisture -
✔✔Brown-banded
, ✔✔________ are the most widely used formulation for cockroach control. - ✔✔Baits
✔✔German cockroaches have __________? - ✔✔Two stripes on their thorax
✔✔________ is the best way to get an insecticide to an entire pharaoh ant colony. -
✔✔Baiting
✔✔When baiting for ants indoors, applying persistent, fast acting, contact insecticides
does not affect the baiting success. - ✔✔False
✔✔Ants are not as sensitive to odors as cockroaches, so using hands that have
touched cigarettes does not affect the baiting success. - ✔✔False
✔✔Chemical control will eliminate a fly problem - ✔✔False
✔✔Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by? - ✔✔American dog ticks
✔✔__________ are found living indoors more often than other ticks. - ✔✔Brown dog
ticks
✔✔In Tennessee, cat fleas are a medical concern because they transmit
____________. - ✔✔Dog tapeworm
✔✔The food of the flea larvae is principally______________. - ✔✔Dried blood from the
female flea.
✔✔Lyme disease is transmitted by __________, which is rarely found in Tennessee. -
✔✔Oxides scapularis
✔✔Rodent and bird mites are usually about ____________. - ✔✔The size of a period at
the end of a sentence.
✔✔The preferred host of the common bed bug is? - ✔✔Human
✔✔The best season and time to treat yellowjacket nest are? - ✔✔Spring at night
✔✔Brown recluse spiders have? - ✔✔The pair of eyes in semi circular arrangement and
a brown violin marking
✔✔The use of insecticides for mosquito control is, at best, a temporary measure that
should be limited to only those situations for which no other alternatives exist. - ✔✔True
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔The four main components of IPM listed in this manual are? - ✔✔Inspection,pest
threshold determination, management procedures and evaluation.
✔✔Which cannot be made into a liquid formulation? - ✔✔Extruded block
✔✔Which is one of the most effective formulations for use against cockroaches, ants,
and rodents? - ✔✔Baits
✔✔Anticoagulant rodenticides kill rodents by? - ✔✔Preventing blood from clotting
✔✔Rodents may store grain pellet pesticides in undesirable locations? - ✔✔True
✔✔First-generation rodenticides must be fed upon more than once for rodents to
receive a lethal dose? - ✔✔True
✔✔Which are potentially more hazardous than other rodenticide formulations and must
be applied with extra caution? - ✔✔Tracking powder
✔✔Which formulation provides outstanding longevity in moist or wet conditions? -
✔✔Flowable micro encapsulate
✔✔In most cases, ___________ kills only the insects present in the air during time of
treatment. - ✔✔Fogging
✔✔Once a duster has been used for a given pesticide, it should never be used to apply
another? - ✔✔True
✔✔Rodent baits are not only toxic to most mammals that might eat the bait, they are
also toxic to fish? - ✔✔True
✔✔The most common and important pest cockroach is the? - ✔✔German
✔✔Female oriental cockroaches have? - ✔✔Short wings
✔✔Cockroaches need _________ to be successful. - ✔✔Food, moisture, and
harborage
✔✔The _______ cockroach does not require a close association with moisture -
✔✔Brown-banded
, ✔✔________ are the most widely used formulation for cockroach control. - ✔✔Baits
✔✔German cockroaches have __________? - ✔✔Two stripes on their thorax
✔✔________ is the best way to get an insecticide to an entire pharaoh ant colony. -
✔✔Baiting
✔✔When baiting for ants indoors, applying persistent, fast acting, contact insecticides
does not affect the baiting success. - ✔✔False
✔✔Ants are not as sensitive to odors as cockroaches, so using hands that have
touched cigarettes does not affect the baiting success. - ✔✔False
✔✔Chemical control will eliminate a fly problem - ✔✔False
✔✔Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by? - ✔✔American dog ticks
✔✔__________ are found living indoors more often than other ticks. - ✔✔Brown dog
ticks
✔✔In Tennessee, cat fleas are a medical concern because they transmit
____________. - ✔✔Dog tapeworm
✔✔The food of the flea larvae is principally______________. - ✔✔Dried blood from the
female flea.
✔✔Lyme disease is transmitted by __________, which is rarely found in Tennessee. -
✔✔Oxides scapularis
✔✔Rodent and bird mites are usually about ____________. - ✔✔The size of a period at
the end of a sentence.
✔✔The preferred host of the common bed bug is? - ✔✔Human
✔✔The best season and time to treat yellowjacket nest are? - ✔✔Spring at night
✔✔Brown recluse spiders have? - ✔✔The pair of eyes in semi circular arrangement and
a brown violin marking
✔✔The use of insecticides for mosquito control is, at best, a temporary measure that
should be limited to only those situations for which no other alternatives exist. - ✔✔True
