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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Among plants in the first crop, there were patterns of variegation so unusual they "could not fail to catch the eye". What was so unusual about these kernels?
(a) They should have been all uniform shape, but there were some that were much larger than expected.
(b) They should have been colorless, but there were spots of color.
(c) They should have all been the same color, but there were four different colors present.
(d) They should have been yellow, but they were brown.

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

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

6. How many scientists are mentioned in the quote by Einstein when he talks about the deep longing that has to be present in scientists?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

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

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

9. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

10. 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) A year.
(d) Ten days.

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

12. Barbara suggested that we must have what to "let it come to you"?
(a) Openness.
(b) Control.
(c) Reverence.
(d) Understanding.

13. In Milislav Demerec's first moves in his new position as the Director of the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he gave Barbara a position for what length of time?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Five years.
(d) One year.

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

15. 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?"
(a) Evelyn Witkin.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?

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

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