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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?
(a) Lewis Stadler.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Max Delbruck.
(d) Milislav Demerec.

2. Who asked Barbara how she could have worked "for two years without knowing what was going to come out?"
(a) George Beadle.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Evelyn Witkin.
(d) Milislav Demerec.

3. What is one of the most fundamental questions of genetics that was mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) How do genes make up particular objects?
(b) How do genes make exact copies of themselves?
(c) How do genes change in generations?
(d) How are genes important to the world of science?

4. In Milislav Demerec's first moves in his new position as the Director of the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he gave Barbara a position for what length of time?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

5. After what length of time did Demerec propose to make Barbara's position permanent at Cold Springs Harbor?
(a) A week.
(b) Ten days.
(c) Two months.
(d) A year.

6. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?
(a) The Mad Hatter.
(b) Alice in Wonderland.
(c) Humpty Dumpty.
(d) The Queen of Hearts.

7. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?
(a) Ribosomal RNA.
(b) Coding RNA.
(c) Transfer RNA.
(d) Messenger RNA.

8. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?
(a) Vannevar Bush.
(b) Salvador Luria.
(c) Charles B. Davenport.
(d) Marcus Rhoades.

9. What did Barbara think when she found that Drosophila that were affected by radiation were more vigorous than the standard Drosophila?
(a) She that it was terribly funny.
(b) She thought that maize would be the same.
(c) She thought the results were wrong.
(d) She thought of changing her field of study.

10. Who presented the second paper in the 1951 symposium?
(a) Milislav Demerec.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Richard Goldschmidt.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

11. What does the term, dissociation mean?
(a) The processing of materials into a different material.
(b) Combining into larger masses.
(c) Controlled breakage.
(d) Complete disappearance of a part.

12. In addition to making copies of itself, DNA also makes what?
(a) Multiple nuclei.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) RNA.
(d) CNA.

13. In Chapter 11, Evelyn Keller states that molecular biology rescued the gene from decades of ambiguity and what?
(a) Mistakes.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Guesses.

14. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cold Spring Harbor.
(c) Cornell.
(d) The University of Edinburgh.

15. Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where?
(a) American Scientist.
(b) American Naturalist.
(c) Naturalism in America.
(d) The Chicago Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said of Barbara that "she was able to convey it to someone who was completely outside the field. She was able to make it real?"

2. Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."?

3. How many parts are in the process of transposition?

4. Who was the French intellectual who was mentioned in Chapter 11 that broke with the Communist Party in 1945?

5. Keller also mentioned that Barbara suggested to us that we must have what to "hear what the material has to say to you"?

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