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

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

3. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?
(a) Ribosomal RNA.
(b) Coding RNA.
(c) Messenger RNA.
(d) Transfer RNA.

4. In addition to making copies of itself, DNA also makes what?
(a) CNA.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Multiple nuclei.
(d) RNA.

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?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the French intellectual who was mentioned in Chapter 11 that broke with the Communist Party in 1945?

2. Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."?

3. How many parts are in the process of transposition?

4. Evelyn Keller mentioned that Barbara told "us" that one must have the time to do what?

5. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. After a decade of total frustration in her efforts, what happened to make Barbara think that the resistance would be weakened that she had encountered?

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

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

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

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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