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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. 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.

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

3. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?
(a) Unlikely solutions.
(b) Belief and hope.
(c) Persistence.
(d) Internal visions.

4. 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) Stunned awkwardness.
(c) Loud cheers.
(d) Stony silence.

5. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"
(a) Chromosomes.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Cells.
(d) Genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?

2. Max Delbruck first came to the United States from what country?

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

4. 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?

5. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the answer to Eveyln Keller's question when she asks, "What enabled McClintock to see further and deeper into the mysteries of genetics than her colleagues?"

8. What did Barbara feel was an organism that was especially unappreciated and why?

9. In Chapter 7, when it was mentioned that Barbara was in private upheaval, what significant event happened during that time and why was she in private upheaval?

10. Why was Barbara apprehensive about presenting her data at the next annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

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