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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Barbara was impressed by the ability of some Tibetans to do what?
(a) Know many scientific secrets.
(b) Regulate their body temperature.
(c) Live on what the land gives them.
(d) Live a long time without water.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1942.

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

10. In addition to making copies of itself, DNA also makes what?
(a) CNA.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) RNA.
(d) Multiple nuclei.

11. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?
(a) Richard Feynman.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

12. In the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?
(a) Streaks or spots of color.
(b) Discolored kernals that were green.
(c) Rings around the outside husk of the corn.
(d) No growth of kernals in many spots.

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

14. 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) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?

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

3. How long did it take for Barbara to get from her first clues to her final interpretation dealing with transposition?

4. How many parts are in the process of transposition?

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

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