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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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 what sidewalks were for.
(c) Because she knew the grass would die.
(d) Because she knew the grass was screaming at her.

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

7. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?
(a) The CIW yearbook.
(b) The Cold Spring Harbor yearbook.
(c) The Missouri yearbook.
(d) The Cornell yearbook.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

14. In Drosophila a bacterium divide in two every how many minutes?
(a) Ten.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty.

15. 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 colorless, but there were spots of color.
(b) They should have been all uniform shape, but there were some that were much larger than expected.
(c) They should have been yellow, but they were brown.
(d) They should have all been the same color, but there were four different colors present.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?

2. Keller states in Chapter 12 that good science cannot proceed without what?

3. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?

4. In the model that Monod and Jacob proposed, they stated that protein synthesis is not regulated by just the structural gene but by how many other genes?

5. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?

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