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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?

3. Gerald Holton commented on scientific imagination and it's importance to how many particular scientists?

4. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What were the three critical factors in Millikan's style of research that Holton cited?

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

4. What difference did Milislav Demerec observe about the symposium papers from 1941 compared to the papers from 1951?

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

6. What did Lewis Stadler point out about the knowledge of genes and who else made this point with him?

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

8. In the early twentieth century what kind of science did biology transform into and what kind of science had it been before that?

9. in the late 1950s, what was the new option that materialized for Barbara?

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

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