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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?
(a) July.
(b) January.
(c) October.
(d) March.

2. How long did it take for Barbara to get from her first clues to her final interpretation dealing with transposition?
(a) Two years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Twelve years.

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

4. What is Neurospora?
(a) A orange mold on corn.
(b) A gray mold on fruit.
(c) A green mold on mushrooms.
(d) A red mold on bread.

5. In 1942, why had the atmosphere at Cold Spring Harbor become even quieter than normal?
(a) Because of the war.
(b) Because they didn't have any openings for new scientists.
(c) Because no one wanted to work with Barbara.
(d) Because they closed their doors for a couple years.

6. Who was the French intellectual who was mentioned in Chapter 11 that broke with the Communist Party in 1945?
(a) Jacques Monod.
(b) Jean Picard.
(c) Francois Jacob.
(d) Jacques Alexander César.

7. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

8. How many scientists are mentioned in the quote by Einstein when he talks about the deep longing that has to be present in scientists?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

9. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?
(a) Roughe.
(b) Millikan.
(c) McClintock.
(d) Einstein.

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

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

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

13. In Chapter 8, Evelyn Keller talks about scientists that set out to understand a new principle of order. What does she say is one of the first things that the scientists do?
(a) They identify any possibilites in a different order.
(b) Look for events that disturb that order.
(c) They watch the development of the order and then compare it to other orders.
(d) They make a list of rules that the order should follow.

14. Why did Barbara feel bad every time she walked on grass?
(a) Because she knew the grass would die.
(b) Because she knew what sidewalks were for.
(c) Because she didn't want to get her shoes dirty.
(d) Because she knew the grass was screaming at her.

15. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?

2. In the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?

3. In what year did Lewis Stadler die?

4. In the model that Monod and Jacob proposed, they stated that protein synthesis is not regulated by just the structural gene but by how many other genes?

5. Gerald Holton commented on scientific imagination and it's importance to how many particular scientists?

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