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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many parts are in the process of transposition?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

3. 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) Harriet Creighton.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Evelyn Witkin.

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

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

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

7. Keller states in Chapter 12 that good science cannot proceed without what?
(a) A good scientist.
(b) A willingness to accept a different solution than what you were hoping for.
(c) A deep emotional investment on the part of the scientist.
(d) A openness to change.

8. In what year was Barbara's last attempt to explain her work to her colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1962.

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

10. What is Neurospora?
(a) A gray mold on fruit.
(b) A green mold on mushrooms.
(c) A orange mold on corn.
(d) A red mold on bread.

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

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

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

14. Who asked Barbara how she could have worked "for two years without knowing what was going to come out?"
(a) Evelyn Witkin.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Milislav Demerec.
(d) George Beadle.

15. What does Keller state is a prerequisite for Barbara's extraordinary perspicacity?
(a) Her drive to succeed.
(b) Her willingness to let her brain take over.
(c) Her love for studying.
(d) Her ultimate knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. DNA makes RNA and RNA makes what?

2. Barbara suggested that we must have what to "let it come to you"?

3. What did Einstein call a deep reverence for nature?

4. Who presented the second paper in the 1951 symposium?

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

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