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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) Combining into larger masses.
(b) The processing of materials into a different material.
(c) Controlled breakage.
(d) Complete disappearance of a part.

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

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

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

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

6. What did Barbara think when she found that Drosophila that were affected by radiation were more vigorous than the standard Drosophila?
(a) She thought the results were wrong.
(b) She thought of changing her field of study.
(c) She thought that maize would be the same.
(d) She that it was terribly funny.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. When was Barbara's obvious occasion to present the full account of her work?
(a) The publication of Recent Advances in Cytology.
(b) The next scientist's convention at Rutgers University.
(c) The next annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium.
(d) The gathering of the national Academy of Sciences.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?"

3. Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where?

4. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"

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

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