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

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

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

4. Max Delbruck first came to the United States from what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Sweden.
(d) China.

5. 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) Eucalyptus.
(b) Pine.
(c) Elm.
(d) Weeping Willow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was Barbara's last attempt to explain her work to her colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor?

3. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?

4. In addition to making copies of itself, DNA also makes what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Barbara feel was an organism that was especially unappreciated and why?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the example involving Love Canal that Barbara tries to explain relating to scientists and engineers?

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