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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. 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?
(a) They watch the development of the order and then compare it to other orders.
(b) They make a list of rules that the order should follow.
(c) Look for events that disturb that order.
(d) They identify any possibilites in a different order.

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

3. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?
(a) Max Delbruck.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Milislav Demerec.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

4. Keller states in Chapter 12 that good science cannot proceed without what?
(a) A good scientist.
(b) A willingness to accept a different solution than what you were hoping for.
(c) A openness to change.
(d) A deep emotional investment on the part of the scientist.

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?
(a) Cold Spring Harbor.
(b) The University of Edinburgh.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?

3. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?

4. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the example involving Love Canal that Barbara tries to explain relating to scientists and engineers?

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

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

5. During the time of the 1960s and 1970s what new honors did Barbara recieve from the larger world of biology?

6. 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?

7. What did Keller say about good science and what does it need to proceed?

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

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

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

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