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

2. Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."?
(a) Joshua Lederberg.
(b) George Beadle.
(c) Esther Parker.
(d) Evelyn Witkin.

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

4. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?
(a) The late 1920's.
(b) The early 1940's.
(c) The early 1950's.
(d) The early 1930's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who extended an invitation to Barbara to help in the collection and preservation of maize in Central and South America?

2. When Barbara was unwilling to accept her failure to see the Neurospora chromosomes, she went outside to sit and meditate under what type of tree?

3. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?

4. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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