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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 Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller quotes Einstein. He said, "To these elementary laws there leads no logical path, but only" what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Discovery.

2. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?
(a) The University of Edinburgh.
(b) Cold Spring Harbor.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Yale.

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

4. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Richard Feynman.
(d) Niels Bohr.

5. Barbara suggested that we must have what to "let it come to you"?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Reverence.
(c) Control.
(d) Openness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?

2. Gerald Holton commented on scientific imagination and it's importance to how many particular scientists?

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

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. How many kinds of RNA are made?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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