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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 watching Barbara work from across the lab during the late night hours.
(c) By reading Barbara's in depth notes.
(d) By looking over Barbara's shoulder.

2. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?
(a) July.
(b) January.
(c) October.
(d) March.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?
(a) Genes and Transposition.
(b) Transposition and Mutations.
(c) Evolution and Genes.
(d) Genes and Mutations.

11. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?
(a) Coding RNA.
(b) Transfer RNA.
(c) Messenger RNA.
(d) Ribosomal RNA.

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

13. 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) Look for events that disturb that order.
(d) They identify any possibilites in a different order.

14. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Cold Spring Harbor.
(c) Yale.
(d) The University of Edinburgh.

15. Why did Barbara feel bad every time she walked on grass?
(a) Because she knew the grass would die.
(b) Because she knew what sidewalks were for.
(c) Because she didn't want to get her shoes dirty.
(d) Because she knew the grass was screaming at her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?

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?"

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

5. In the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?

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