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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?
(a) By listening to recordings that Barbara taped to teach others.
(b) By reading Barbara's in depth notes.
(c) By looking over Barbara's shoulder.
(d) By watching Barbara work from across the lab during the late night hours.

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

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

4. In Chapter 11, Evelyn Keller states that molecular biology rescued the gene from decades of ambiguity and what?
(a) Mistakes.
(b) Guesses.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Confusion.

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

6. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) None.

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

8. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Forty-five.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

9. Who extended an invitation to Barbara to help in the collection and preservation of maize in Central and South America?
(a) The National Academy of Sciences.
(b) The National Academies.
(c) The National Institute of Medicine.
(d) The Organization of National Sciences.

10. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?
(a) The early 1940's.
(b) The late 1920's.
(c) The early 1950's.
(d) The early 1930's.

11. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Millikan.
(c) McClintock.
(d) Roughe.

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

13. How long did it take for Barbara to get from her first clues to her final interpretation dealing with transposition?
(a) Two years.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Four years.

14. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?
(a) Max Delbruck.
(b) Lewis Stadler.
(c) Milislav Demerec.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

15. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?
(a) Vannevar Bush.
(b) Salvador Luria.
(c) Charles B. Davenport.
(d) Marcus Rhoades.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Barbara's obvious occasion to present the full account of her work?

2. Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."?

3. 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?

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

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

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