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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 Drosophila a bacterium divide in two every how many minutes?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

2. Barbara felt like above all, one must have what?
(a) Complete willingness to accept.
(b) A feeling for the organism.
(c) Understanding of the possibility of the unknown.
(d) Ability to change our perception of things.

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

4. Keller also mentioned that Barbara suggested to us that we must have what to "hear what the material has to say to you"?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Patience.
(c) Observance.
(d) Stillness.

5. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many kinds of RNA are made?

2. When was Barbara's obvious occasion to present the full account of her work?

3. In Chapter 11, Evelyn Keller states that molecular biology rescued the gene from decades of ambiguity and what?

4. 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?

5. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were some of the reasons that Cold Spring Harbor was appealing to scientists during the summer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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