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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. 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) Cold Spring Harbor.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Yale.

2. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Protein.
(c) Chromatin.
(d) Plasma membrane.

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

4. Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."?
(a) Joshua Lederberg.
(b) George Beadle.
(c) Esther Parker.
(d) Evelyn Witkin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?

2. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?

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

4. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?

5. Who presented the third paper in the 1951 symposium?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Barbara apprehensive about presenting her data at the next annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

2. Why did it take Barbara six years before she could present the scientific world with her ideas on transposition?

3. Why did Freeman Dyson state that Richard Feynman was unable to communicate and hard to understand?

4. What did Keller say about good science and what does it need to proceed?

5. What difference did Milislav Demerec observe about the symposium papers from 1941 compared to the papers from 1951?

6. What were the three critical factors in Millikan's style of research that Holton cited?

7. in the late 1950s, what was the new option that materialized for Barbara?

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

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

10. What did Lewis Stadler point out about the knowledge of genes and who else made this point with him?

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