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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 1942, why had the atmosphere at Cold Spring Harbor become even quieter than normal?
(a) Because they closed their doors for a couple years.
(b) Because no one wanted to work with Barbara.
(c) Because of the war.
(d) Because they didn't have any openings for new scientists.

2. What is one of the most fundamental questions of genetics that was mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) How are genes important to the world of science?
(b) How do genes make up particular objects?
(c) How do genes make exact copies of themselves?
(d) How do genes change in generations?

3. 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) Look for events that disturb that order.
(c) They make a list of rules that the order should follow.
(d) They identify any possibilites in a different order.

4. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?
(a) Salvador Luria.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Vannevar Bush.
(d) Charles B. Davenport.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?

2. Keller states in Chapter 12 that good science cannot proceed without what?

3. Who did Barbara write to to arrange an invitation to Cold Springs Harbor?

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

5. How many winters did Barbara spend in Central and South America?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Freeman Dyson state that Richard Feynman was unable to communicate and hard to understand?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?"

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