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

2. What does the term, dissociation mean?
(a) The processing of materials into a different material.
(b) Complete disappearance of a part.
(c) Controlled breakage.
(d) Combining into larger masses.

3. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?
(a) Evolution and Genes.
(b) Genes and Transposition.
(c) Genes and Mutations.
(d) Transposition and Mutations.

4. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?
(a) Millikan.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Roughe.
(d) McClintock.

5. In 1941, how many geneticists did Cold Spring Harbor draw?
(a) Over eighty.
(b) Over seventy.
(c) Over ninety.
(d) Over sixty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Einstein call a deep reverence for nature?

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

3. In addition to making copies of itself, DNA also makes what?

4. How long did it take for Barbara to get from her first clues to her final interpretation dealing with transposition?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Barbara feel was an organism that was especially unappreciated and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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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