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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Barbara write to to arrange an invitation to Cold Springs Harbor?
(a) Rollins Emerson.
(b) Esther Parker.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Milislav Demerec.

2. In 1941, how many geneticists did Cold Spring Harbor draw?
(a) Over seventy.
(b) Over sixty.
(c) Over ninety.
(d) Over eighty.

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

4. Barbara was impressed by the ability of some Tibetans to do what?
(a) Know many scientific secrets.
(b) Regulate their body temperature.
(c) Live on what the land gives them.
(d) Live a long time without water.

5. What did Einstein call a deep reverence for nature?
(a) Pantheism thinking.
(b) Serenity thought.
(c) Deep ecology.
(d) Cosmic religiosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?

2. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?

3. Who presented the first paper in the 1951 symposium?

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

5. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, when it was mentioned that Barbara was in private upheaval, what significant event happened during that time and why was she in private upheaval?

2. What were some of the reasons that Cold Spring Harbor was appealing to scientists during the summer?

3. After a decade of total frustration in her efforts, what happened to make Barbara think that the resistance would be weakened that she had encountered?

4. Describe how the information or data that Barbara had collected filled her office.

5. What happened when Lotte Auerbach from the University of Edinburgh visited Barbara in her lab at Cold Spring Harbor?

6. What did George Beadle tell Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation about Barbara's visit to Stanford?

7. How did Milislav Demerec describe what the view of genes was in 1941?

8. In the early twentieth century what kind of science did biology transform into and what kind of science had it been before that?

9. How did Max Delbruck put Cold Spring Harbor on the map and for whom?

10. How did Barbara arrange to get an invitation to Cold Spring Harbor?

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