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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 11, Evelyn Keller states that molecular biology rescued the gene from decades of ambiguity and what?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Guesses.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Mistakes.

2. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Forty-five.
(d) Thirty.

3. What did Einstein call a deep reverence for nature?
(a) Deep ecology.
(b) Cosmic religiosity.
(c) Serenity thought.
(d) Pantheism thinking.

4. Among plants in the first crop, there were patterns of variegation so unusual they "could not fail to catch the eye". What was so unusual about these kernels?
(a) They should have been yellow, but they were brown.
(b) They should have been all uniform shape, but there were some that were much larger than expected.
(c) They should have all been the same color, but there were four different colors present.
(d) They should have been colorless, but there were spots of color.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many winters did Barbara spend in Central and South America?

2. In the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?

3. Barbara was impressed by the ability of some Tibetans to do what?

4. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?

5. DNA makes RNA and RNA makes what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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