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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 extended an invitation to Barbara to help in the collection and preservation of maize in Central and South America?
(a) The Organization of National Sciences.
(b) The National Academies.
(c) The National Institute of Medicine.
(d) The National Academy of Sciences.

2. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?
(a) The University of Missouri.
(b) The Carnegie Institution of Washington.
(c) The Rockefeller Foundation.
(d) The National Society of Sciences.

3. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1944.

4. DNA makes RNA and RNA makes what?
(a) Us.
(b) Bacteria.
(c) Eukaryotes
(d) Protein.

5. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. After what length of time did Demerec propose to make Barbara's position permanent at Cold Springs Harbor?

2. 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?

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

4. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?

5. Keller also mentioned that Barbara suggested to us that we must have what to "hear what the material has to say to you"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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