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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In Drosophila a bacterium divide in two every how many minutes?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Thirty.

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

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

5. Barbara felt like above all, one must have what?
(a) Ability to change our perception of things.
(b) A feeling for the organism.
(c) Complete willingness to accept.
(d) Understanding of the possibility of the unknown.

6. In Chapter 12, Keller mentions that the adaptability of what tends to be especially unappreciated?
(a) Plants.
(b) Maize.
(c) Drosophila.
(d) Humans.

7. In what year was Barbara's last attempt to explain her work to her colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1962.

8. In what year did Lewis Stadler die?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1951.

9. Evelyn Keller mentioned that Barbara told "us" that one must have the time to do what?
(a) Wonder.
(b) Think.
(c) Look.
(d) Ponder.

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

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

12. When Barbara was unwilling to accept her failure to see the Neurospora chromosomes, she went outside to sit and meditate under what type of tree?
(a) Elm.
(b) Eucalyptus.
(c) Pine.
(d) Weeping Willow.

13. How many kinds of RNA are made?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

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

15. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?
(a) The Rockefeller Foundation.
(b) The Carnegie Institution of Washington.
(c) The University of Missouri.
(d) The National Society of Sciences.

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. Who presented the second paper in the 1951 symposium?

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

4. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?

5. How many scientists are mentioned in the quote by Einstein when he talks about the deep longing that has to be present in scientists?

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