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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"
(a) Genes.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Cells.
(d) Chromosomes.

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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) Stanley Stephens.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Evelyn Witkin.
(d) George Beadle.

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

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 that it was terribly funny.
(c) She thought that maize would be the same.
(d) She thought of changing her field of study.

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

9. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller quotes Einstein. He said, "To these elementary laws there leads no logical path, but only" what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Discovery.
(d) Dreams.

10. How many winters did Barbara spend in Central and South America?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

11. Who's number of year-round investigators hovered around six and eight?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Cold Spring Harbor.
(d) Cornell.

12. 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 watch the development of the order and then compare it to other orders.
(b) Look for events that disturb that order.
(c) They make a list of rules that the order should follow.
(d) They identify any possibilites in a different order.

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

14. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?
(a) Evolution and Genes.
(b) Genes and Mutations.
(c) Genes and Transposition.
(d) Transposition and Mutations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Lewis Stadler die?

2. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?

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

4. In 1942, why had the atmosphere at Cold Spring Harbor become even quieter than normal?

5. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?

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