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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?
(a) Richard Goldschmidt.
(b) Milislav Demerec.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

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

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

5. In the beginning of Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller writes about Barbara giving her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium and that it was met with what?
(a) Loud cheers.
(b) Stunned awkwardness.
(c) Stony silence.
(d) Grateful applause.

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

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

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

9. Who's number of year-round investigators hovered around six and eight?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Cold Spring Harbor.
(d) Harvard.

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

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

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

13. Who did Barbara write to to arrange an invitation to Cold Springs Harbor?
(a) Milislav Demerec.
(b) Rollins Emerson.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Esther Parker.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many kinds of RNA are made?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?

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