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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Keller state is a prerequisite for Barbara's extraordinary perspicacity?
(a) Her willingness to let her brain take over.
(b) Her love for studying.
(c) Her drive to succeed.
(d) Her ultimate knowledge.

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

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

6. 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) March.
(d) October.

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

8. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) Richard Feynman.

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

10. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?
(a) The Missouri yearbook.
(b) The CIW yearbook.
(c) The Cold Spring Harbor yearbook.
(d) The Cornell yearbook.

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

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

13. Gerald Holton commented on scientific imagination and it's importance to how many particular scientists?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

14. 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?"
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) George Beadle.
(c) Stanley Stephens.
(d) Evelyn Witkin.

15. 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) The University of Edinburgh.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Cold Spring Harbor.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was quoted in the book as saying, "You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be?"

2. 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?

3. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?

4. Who extended an invitation to Barbara to help in the collection and preservation of maize in Central and South America?

5. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?

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