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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?
(a) The Carnegie Institution of Washington.
(b) The Rockefeller Foundation.
(c) The University of Missouri.
(d) The National Society of Sciences.

2. 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) Grateful applause.
(b) Loud cheers.
(c) Stony silence.
(d) Stunned awkwardness.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the French intellectual who was mentioned in Chapter 11 that broke with the Communist Party in 1945?

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

3. Barbara felt like above all, one must have what?

4. How many kinds of RNA are made?

5. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did it take Barbara six years before she could present the scientific world with her ideas on transposition?

2. What did George Beadle tell Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation about Barbara's visit to Stanford?

3. How did Milislav Demerec describe what the view of genes was in 1941?

4. Describe how the information or data that Barbara had collected filled her office.

5. What happened after Barbara delivered her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

6. Among the plants in Barbara's very first crop there was one that was particularly noteworthy. Why?

7. After a decade of total frustration in her efforts, what happened to make Barbara think that the resistance would be weakened that she had encountered?

8. What happened when Lotte Auerbach from the University of Edinburgh visited Barbara in her lab at Cold Spring Harbor?

9. How did Barbara arrange to get an invitation to Cold Spring Harbor?

10. How did Max Delbruck put Cold Spring Harbor on the map and for whom?

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